net.sf.saxon.om
Interface GroundedIterator

All Superinterfaces:

SequenceIterator

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArrayIterator, EmptyIterator, ListIterator, MemoClosure.ProgressiveIterator, RangeIterator, SingletonIterator

public interface GroundedIterator

extends SequenceIterator

This interface is an extension to the SequenceIterator interface; it represents a SequenceIterator that is based on an in-memory representation of a sequence, and that is therefore capable of returned a SequenceValue containing all the items in the sequence.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.SequenceIterator

ATOMIZABLE, GROUNDED, LAST_POSITION_FINDER, LOOKAHEAD

Method Summary

Value

materialize() Return a Value containing all the items in the sequence returned by this SequenceIterator.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.SequenceIterator

current, getAnother, getProperties, next, position

Method Detail

materialize

public Value materialize()
                  throws XPathException

Return a Value containing all the items in the sequence returned by this SequenceIterator. This should be an "in-memory" value, not a Closure.

Returns:

the corresponding Value

Throws:

XPathException