com.metamatrix.common.xml
Class XPathUtil

java.lang.Object
  com.metamatrix.common.xml.XPathUtil

public class XPathUtil
extends java.lang.Object

Nested Class Summary

static class	XPathUtil.ExpressionToken
static class	XPathUtil.Literal
static class	XPathUtil.Operator

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	STEP_DELIMITER Delimiter for XPath
static char	STEP_DELIMITER_CHAR

Constructor Summary

XPathUtil()

Method Summary

protected static java.lang.StringBuffer	addToXPath(org.jdom.Element tag, java.lang.StringBuffer sb)
static java.lang.String	getAbsolutePath(org.jdom.Attribute attribute) Get the absolute path using the abbreviated format of XPath 1.0 for the specified attribute.
static java.lang.String	getAbsolutePath(org.jdom.Element tag) Get the absolute path using the abbreviated format of XPath 1.0 for the specified element.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

STEP_DELIMITER

public static final java.lang.String STEP_DELIMITER

Delimiter for XPath

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Constant Field Values

STEP_DELIMITER_CHAR

public static final char STEP_DELIMITER_CHAR

Constructor Detail

XPathUtil

public XPathUtil()

Method Detail

getAbsolutePath

public static java.lang.String getAbsolutePath(org.jdom.Element tag)

Get the absolute path using the abbreviated format of XPath 1.0 for the specified element. For example, the following XPath:

/doc/chapter[5]/section[2]

specifies the second section of the fifth chapter of the document.

Returns:

the XPath of the specified element.

See Also:

XPath

getAbsolutePath

public static java.lang.String getAbsolutePath(org.jdom.Attribute attribute)

Get the absolute path using the abbreviated format of XPath 1.0 for the specified attribute. For example, the following XPath:

/doc/chapter[5]/section[2]/@title

specifies the title attribute of the second section of the fifth chapter of the document.

Returns:

the XPath of the specified element.

See Also:

XPath

addToXPath

protected static java.lang.StringBuffer addToXPath(org.jdom.Element tag,
                                                   java.lang.StringBuffer sb)