Constructor Detail

• XMLElementEvaluator

  public XMLElementEvaluator(XPointer xpointer,
                     XMLElement root)

  Constructs a new XMLElement abstract class for a XPointer and XMLElement.

  Parameters:

  xpointer - an XPointer which to evaluate.

  root - an XMLElement which to evaluate the XPointer against.

Method Detail

• evaluate

  public XMLElement evaluate()

  Evaluates the XPointer on the root XMLElement and returns the resulting XMLElement or null.

  Returns:

  an XMLElement from the resultant evaluation of the root XMLElement or null if evaluation fails.

• testElementShorthand

  public abstract boolean testElementShorthand(XMLElement element,
                             String id)

  Tests the element for an id according to the specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/#term-sdi and returns a boolean answer.

  Parameters:

  element - An XMLElement to test for an id.

  id - A String of the id to test for.

  Returns:

  boolean value of whether the id matches or not.