org.apache.xml.dtm.ref
Class DTMAxisIterNodeList
- org.w3c.dom.NodeList
public class DTMAxisIterNodeList
DTMAxisNodeList
gives us an implementation of the DOM's
NodeList interface wrapped around a DTM Iterator. The author
considers this something of an abominations, since NodeList was not
intended to be a general purpose "list of nodes" API and is
generally considered by the DOM WG to have be a mistake... but I'm
told that some of the XPath/XSLT folks say they must have this
solution.
Please note that this is not necessarily equivlaent to a DOM
NodeList operating over the same document. In particular:
- If there are several Text nodes in logical succession (ie,
across CDATASection and EntityReference boundaries), we will return
only the first; the caller is responsible for stepping through
them.
(%REVIEW% Provide a convenience routine here to assist, pending
proposed DOM Level 3 getAdjacentText() operation?)
- Since the whole XPath/XSLT architecture assumes that the source
document is not altered while we're working with it, we do not
promise to implement the DOM NodeList's "live view" response to
document mutation.
State: In progress!!
DTMAxisIterNodeList
public DTMAxisIterNodeList(DTM dtm,
DTMAxisIterator dtmAxisIterator)
Public constructor: Wrap a DTMNodeList around an existing
and preconfigured DTMAxisIterator
getDTMAxisIterator
public DTMAxisIterator getDTMAxisIterator()
Access the wrapped DTMIterator. I'm not sure whether anyone will
need this or not, but let's write it and think about it.
getLength
public int getLength()
The number of nodes in the list. The range of valid child node indices
is 0 to length-1
inclusive.
- getLength in interface DTMNodeListBase
item
public Node item(int index)
Returns the index
th item in the collection. If
index
is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in
the list, this returns null
.
- item in interface DTMNodeListBase
index
- Index into the collection.
- The node at the
index
th position in the
NodeList
, or null
if that is not a valid
index.
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