Package net.sf.saxon.sxpath
This package provides an alternative API for executing XPath expressions
directly from a Java application: unlike the API in package net.sf.saxon.xpath
, these
interfaces are not dependent on JAXP 1.3. The API can be used either in a free-standing
Java application (that is, where there is no XSLT stylesheet), or it can be
used from within Java extension functions called from XPath expressions within
a stylesheet.
If you have JDK 1.5 installed, you should probably be using the standard XPath API defined
in JAXP 1.3, which is available in package net.sf.saxon.xpath
, distributed in a
separate JAR file saxon8-xpath.jar
. This interface is provided for use it situations
where installing JAXP 1.3 is inconvenient. It provides less functionality than the JAXP API, for
example it does not allow XPath expressions to reference variables or functions, and it gives no
control over the result type of the expression (you can control this by including casts or
conversion functions within the expression itself).
The method XPathEvaluator.build(Source)
is probably the most convenient way of
building a Saxon tree, and can be used quite independently of the XPath API.
Michael H. Kay
Saxonica Limited
9 February 2005
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Interface Summary Interface Description XPathStaticContext This interface defines methods that must be provided when Saxon's free-standing XPath API is used. -
Class Summary Class Description AbstractStaticContext An abstract and configurable implementation of the StaticContext interface, which defines the static context of an XPath expression.IndependentContext An IndependentContext provides a context for parsing an XPath expression appearing in a context other than a stylesheet.XPathDynamicContext This object represents the dynamic XPath execution context for use in the free-standing Saxon XPath API.XPathEvaluator This class provide a native Saxon API for free-standing evaluation of XPath expressions.XPathExpression This class is a representation of an XPath Expression for use with theXPathEvaluator
class.XPathVariable An object representing an XPath variable for use in the standalone XPath API.