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1 /*
2  * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
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16 /*
17  * $Id: XPathFactory.java,v 1.9 2004/02/17 04:30:02 minchau Exp $
18  */
19 package org.apache.xpath;
20
21 import javax.xml.transform.SourceLocator JavaDoc;
22
23 import org.apache.xml.utils.PrefixResolver;
24
25 /**
26  * Factory class for creating an XPath. Implementors of XPath derivatives
27  * will need to make a derived class of this.
28  * @xsl.usage advanced
29  */
30 public interface XPathFactory
31 {
32
33   /**
34    * Create an XPath.
35    *
36    * @param exprString The XPath expression string.
37    * @param locator The location of the expression string, mainly for diagnostic
38    * purposes.
39    * @param prefixResolver This will be called in order to resolve prefixes
40    * to namespace URIs.
41    * @param type One of {@link org.apache.xpath.XPath#SELECT} or
42    * {@link org.apache.xpath.XPath#MATCH}.
43    *
44    * @return an XPath ready for execution.
45    */
46   XPath create(String JavaDoc exprString, SourceLocator JavaDoc locator,
47                PrefixResolver prefixResolver, int type);
48 }
49
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