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package org.w3c.dom.xpath;


import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;

/**
 *  The evaluation of XPath expressions is provided by
 * <code>XPathEvaluator</code>. In a DOM implementation which supports the
 * XPath 3.0 feature, as described above, the <code>XPathEvaluator</code>
 * interface will be implemented on the same object which implements the
 * <code>Document</code> interface permitting it to be obtained by the usual
 * binding-specific method such as casting or by using the DOM Level 3
 * getInterface method. In this case the implementation obtained from the
 * Document supports the XPath DOM module and is compatible with the XPath
 * 1.0 specification.
 * <p>Evaluation of expressions with specialized extension functions or
 * variables may not work in all implementations and is, therefore, not
 * portable. <code>XPathEvaluator</code> implementations may be available
 * from other sources that could provide specific support for specialized
 * extension functions or variables as would be defined by other
 * specifications.
 * <p>See also the <a href='https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-XPath/'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification</a>.
 */
public interface XPathEvaluator {
    /**
     * Creates a parsed XPath expression with resolved namespaces. This is
     * useful when an expression will be reused in an application since it
     * makes it possible to compile the expression string into a more
     * efficient internal form and preresolve all namespace prefixes which
     * occur within the expression.
     * @param expression The XPath expression string to be parsed.
     * @param resolver The <code>resolver</code> permits translation of
     *   prefixes within the XPath expression into appropriate namespace URIs
     *   . If this is specified as <code>null</code>, any namespace prefix
     *   within the expression will result in <code>DOMException</code>
     *   being thrown with the code <code>NAMESPACE_ERR</code>.
     * @return The compiled form of the XPath expression.
     * @exception XPathException
     *   INVALID_EXPRESSION_ERR: Raised if the expression is not legal
     *   according to the rules of the <code>XPathEvaluator</code>i
     * @exception DOMException
     *   NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the expression contains namespace prefixes
     *   which cannot be resolved by the specified
     *   <code>XPathNSResolver</code>.
     */
    public XPathExpression createExpression(String expression,
                                            XPathNSResolver resolver)
                                            throws XPathException, DOMException;

    /**
     * Adapts any DOM node to resolve namespaces so that an XPath expression
     * can be easily evaluated relative to the context of the node where it
     * appeared within the document. This adapter works like the DOM Level 3
     * method <code>lookupNamespaceURI</code> on nodes in resolving the
     * namespaceURI from a given prefix using the current information
     * available in the node's hierarchy at the time lookupNamespaceURI is
     * called. also correctly resolving the implicit xml prefix.
     * @param nodeResolver The node to be used as a context for namespace
     *   resolution.
     * @return <code>XPathNSResolver</code> which resolves namespaces with
     *   respect to the definitions in scope for a specified node.
     */
    public XPathNSResolver createNSResolver(Node nodeResolver);

    /**
     * Evaluates an XPath expression string and returns a result of the
     * specified type if possible.
     * @param expression The XPath expression string to be parsed and
     *   evaluated.
     * @param contextNode The <code>context</code> is context node for the
     *   evaluation of this XPath expression. If the XPathEvaluator was
     *   obtained by casting the <code>Document</code> then this must be
     *   owned by the same document and must be a <code>Document</code>,
     *   <code>Element</code>, <code>Attribute</code>, <code>Text</code>,
     *   <code>CDATASection</code>, <code>Comment</code>,
     *   <code>ProcessingInstruction</code>, or <code>XPathNamespace</code>
     *   node. If the context node is a <code>Text</code> or a
     *   <code>CDATASection</code>, then the context is interpreted as the
     *   whole logical text node as seen by XPath, unless the node is empty
     *   in which case it may not serve as the XPath context.
     * @param resolver The <code>resolver</code> permits translation of
     *   prefixes within the XPath expression into appropriate namespace URIs
     *   . If this is specified as <code>null</code>, any namespace prefix
     *   within the expression will result in <code>DOMException</code>
     *   being thrown with the code <code>NAMESPACE_ERR</code>.
     * @param type If a specific <code>type</code> is specified, then the
     *   result will be returned as the corresponding type.For XPath 1.0
     *   results, this must be one of the codes of the
     *   <code>XPathResult</code> interface.
     * @param result The <code>result</code> specifies a specific result
     *   object which may be reused and returned by this method. If this is
     *   specified as <code>null</code>or the implementation does not reuse
     *   the specified result, a new result object will be constructed and
     *   returned.For XPath 1.0 results, this object will be of type
     *   <code>XPathResult</code>.
     * @return The result of the evaluation of the XPath expression.For XPath
     *   1.0 results, this object will be of type <code>XPathResult</code>.
     * @exception XPathException
     *   INVALID_EXPRESSION_ERR: Raised if the expression is not legal
     *   according to the rules of the <code>XPathEvaluator</code>i

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