Module jdk.xml.dom
Package org.w3c.dom.xpath
package org.w3c.dom.xpath
Provides interfaces for DOM Level 3 XPath Specification. The XPath module
provides simple functionalities to access a DOM tree using
XPath 1.0.
The interfaces and classes in this package came from
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification,
Working Draft 20 August 2002. Refer to
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification, Version 1.0,
W3C Working Group Note 26 February 2004 except that the values of
XPathException.INVALID_EXPRESSION_ERR
and XPathException.TYPE_ERR
are 1 and 2 respectively (instead of 51 and 52).
- Since:
- 1.4
-
ClassDescriptionThe evaluation of XPath expressions is provided by
XPathEvaluator
.A new exception has been created for exceptions specific to these XPath interfaces.TheXPathExpression
interface represents a parsed and resolved XPath expression.TheXPathNamespace
interface is returned byXPathResult
interfaces to represent the XPath namespace node type that DOM lacks.TheXPathNSResolver
interface permitprefix
strings in the expression to be properly bound tonamespaceURI
strings.TheXPathResult
interface represents the result of the evaluation of an XPath 1.0 expression within the context of a particular node.