jaxp/src/share/classes/org/w3c/dom/xpath/XPathResult.java
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+/*
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+ * License version 2 only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ * However, the following notice accompanied the original version of this
+ * file and, per its terms, should not be removed:
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+ * Copyright (c) 2002 World Wide Web Consortium,
+ * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
+ * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
+ * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
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+ * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
+ * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+ * PURPOSE.
+ * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
+ */
+
+package org.w3c.dom.xpath;
+
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
+
+/**
+ * The <code>XPathResult</code> interface represents the result of the
+ * evaluation of an XPath 1.0 expression within the context of a particular
+ * node. Since evaluation of an XPath expression can result in various
+ * result types, this object makes it possible to discover and manipulate
+ * the type and value of the result.
+ * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/2002/08/WD-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20020820'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification</a>.
+ */
+public interface XPathResult {
+    // XPathResultType
+    /**
+     * This code does not represent a specific type. An evaluation of an XPath
+     * expression will never produce this type. If this type is requested,
+     * then the evaluation returns whatever type naturally results from
+     * evaluation of the expression.
+     * <br>If the natural result is a node set when <code>ANY_TYPE</code> was
+     * requested, then <code>UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE</code> is always
+     * the resulting type. Any other representation of a node set must be
+     * explicitly requested.
+     */
+    public static final short ANY_TYPE                  = 0;
+    /**
+     * The result is a number as defined by . Document modification does not
+     * invalidate the number, but may mean that reevaluation would not yield
+     * the same number.
+     */
+    public static final short NUMBER_TYPE               = 1;
+    /**
+     * The result is a string as defined by . Document modification does not
+     * invalidate the string, but may mean that the string no longer
+     * corresponds to the current document.
+     */
+    public static final short STRING_TYPE               = 2;
+    /**
+     * The result is a boolean as defined by . Document modification does not
+     * invalidate the boolean, but may mean that reevaluation would not
+     * yield the same boolean.
+     */
+    public static final short BOOLEAN_TYPE              = 3;
+    /**
+     * The result is a node set as defined by  that will be accessed
+     * iteratively, which may not produce nodes in a particular order.
+     * Document modification invalidates the iteration.
+     * <br>This is the default type returned if the result is a node set and
+     * <code>ANY_TYPE</code> is requested.
+     */
+    public static final short UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE = 4;
+    /**
+     * The result is a node set as defined by  that will be accessed
+     * iteratively, which will produce document-ordered nodes. Document
+     * modification invalidates the iteration.
+     */
+    public static final short ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE = 5;
+    /**
+     * The result is a node set as defined by  that will be accessed as a
+     * snapshot list of nodes that may not be in a particular order.
+     * Document modification does not invalidate the snapshot but may mean
+     * that reevaluation would not yield the same snapshot and nodes in the
+     * snapshot may have been altered, moved, or removed from the document.
+     */
+    public static final short UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE = 6;
+    /**
+     * The result is a node set as defined by  that will be accessed as a
+     * snapshot list of nodes that will be in original document order.
+     * Document modification does not invalidate the snapshot but may mean
+     * that reevaluation would not yield the same snapshot and nodes in the
+     * snapshot may have been altered, moved, or removed from the document.
+     */
+    public static final short ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE = 7;
+    /**
+     * The result is a node set as defined by  and will be accessed as a
+     * single node, which may be <code>null</code>if the node set is empty.
+     * Document modification does not invalidate the node, but may mean that
+     * the result node no longer corresponds to the current document. This
+     * is a convenience that permits optimization since the implementation
+     * can stop once any node in the in the resulting set has been found.
+     * <br>If there are more than one node in the actual result, the single
+     * node returned might not be the first in document order.
+     */
+    public static final short ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE   = 8;
+    /**
+     * The result is a node set as defined by  and will be accessed as a
+     * single node, which may be <code>null</code> if the node set is empty.
+     * Document modification does not invalidate the node, but may mean that
+     * the result node no longer corresponds to the current document. This
+     * is a convenience that permits optimization since the implementation
+     * can stop once the first node in document order of the resulting set
+     * has been found.
+     * <br>If there are more than one node in the actual result, the single
+     * node returned will be the first in document order.
+     */
+    public static final short FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE   = 9;
+
+    /**
+     * A code representing the type of this result, as defined by the type
+     * constants.
+     */
+    public short getResultType();
+
+    /**
+     * The value of this number result. If the native double type of the DOM
+     * binding does not directly support the exact IEEE 754 result of the
+     * XPath expression, then it is up to the definition of the binding
+     * binding to specify how the XPath number is converted to the native
+     * binding number.
+     * @exception XPathException
+     *   TYPE_ERR: raised if <code>resultType</code> is not
+     *   <code>NUMBER_TYPE</code>.
+     */
+    public double getNumberValue()
+                             throws XPathException;
+
+    /**
+     * The value of this string result.
+     * @exception XPathException
+     *   TYPE_ERR: raised if <code>resultType</code> is not
+     *   <code>STRING_TYPE</code>.
+     */
+    public String getStringValue()
+                             throws XPathException;
+
+    /**
+     * The value of this boolean result.
+     * @exception XPathException
+     *   TYPE_ERR: raised if <code>resultType</code> is not
+     *   <code>BOOLEAN_TYPE</code>.
+     */
+    public boolean getBooleanValue()
+                             throws XPathException;
+
+    /**
+     * The value of this single node result, which may be <code>null</code>.
+     * @exception XPathException
+     *   TYPE_ERR: raised if <code>resultType</code> is not
+     *   <code>ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE</code> or
+     *   <code>FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE</code>.
+     */
+    public Node getSingleNodeValue()
+                             throws XPathException;
+
+    /**
+     * Signifies that the iterator has become invalid. True if
+     * <code>resultType</code> is <code>UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE</code>
+     * or <code>ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE</code> and the document has been
+     * modified since this result was returned.
+     */
+    public boolean getInvalidIteratorState();
+
+    /**
+     * The number of nodes in the result snapshot. Valid values for
+     * snapshotItem indices are <code>0</code> to
+     * <code>snapshotLength-1</code> inclusive.
+     * @exception XPathException
+     *   TYPE_ERR: raised if <code>resultType</code> is not
+     *   <code>UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE</code> or
+     *   <code>ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE</code>.
+     */
+    public int getSnapshotLength()
+                             throws XPathException;
+
+    /**
+     * Iterates and returns the next node from the node set or
+     * <code>null</code>if there are no more nodes.
+     * @return Returns the next node.
+     * @exception XPathException
+     *   TYPE_ERR: raised if <code>resultType</code> is not
+     *   <code>UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE</code> or
+     *   <code>ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE</code>.
+     * @exception DOMException
+     *   INVALID_STATE_ERR: The document has been mutated since the result was
+     *   returned.
+     */
+    public Node iterateNext()
+                            throws XPathException, DOMException;
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the <code>index</code>th item in the snapshot collection. If
+     * <code>index</code> is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in
+     * the list, this method returns <code>null</code>. Unlike the iterator
+     * result, the snapshot does not become invalid, but may not correspond
+     * to the current document if it is mutated.
+     * @param index Index into the snapshot collection.
+     * @return The node at the <code>index</code>th position in the
+     *   <code>NodeList</code>, or <code>null</code> if that is not a valid
+     *   index.
+     * @exception XPathException
+     *   TYPE_ERR: raised if <code>resultType</code> is not
+     *   <code>UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE</code> or
+     *   <code>ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE</code>.
+     */
+    public Node snapshotItem(int index)
+                             throws XPathException;
+
+}