net.sf.saxon.regex.charclass

Interface CharacterClass

All Superinterfaces:

IntPredicate

All Known Implementing Classes:

Categories.Category, EmptyCharacterClass, IntSetCharacterClass, InverseCharacterClass, PredicateCharacterClass, SingletonCharacterClass

public interface CharacterClass
extends IntPredicate

A character class represents a set of characters for regex matching purposes. It extends IntPredicate, so there is a mechanism for testing whether a particular codepoint is a member of the class. In addition it provides a method for testing whether two classes are disjoint, which is used when optimizing regular expressions.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
IntSet	getIntSet() Get the set of matching characters if available.
boolean	isDisjoint(CharacterClass other) Ask whether this character class is known to be disjoint with another character class (that is, the two classes have no characters in common).

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.z.IntPredicate

matches

Method Detail

isDisjoint

boolean isDisjoint(CharacterClass other)

Ask whether this character class is known to be disjoint with another character class (that is, the two classes have no characters in common). If in doubt, return false.

Parameters:

other - the other character class

Returns:

true if the character classes are known to be disjoint; false if there may be characters in common between the two classes

getIntSet

IntSet getIntSet()

Get the set of matching characters if available. If not available, return null