XpathEngine.java

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package org.custommonkey.xmlunit;

import org.custommonkey.xmlunit.exceptions.XpathException;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

/**
 * Abstraction of an engine evaluating XPath expressions.
 */
public interface XpathEngine {

    /**
     * Execute the specified xpath syntax <code>select</code> expression
     * on the specified document and return the list of nodes (could have
     * length zero) that match
     * @param select
     * @param document
     * @return list of matching nodes
     */
    NodeList getMatchingNodes(String select, Document document)
        throws XpathException;
    
    /**
     * Evaluate the result of executing the specified xpath syntax
     * <code>select</code> expression on the specified document
     * @param select
     * @param document
     * @return evaluated result
     */
    String evaluate(String select, Document document)
        throws XpathException;

    /**
     * Establish a namespace context.
     */
    void setNamespaceContext(NamespaceContext ctx);
}