XPathQuery

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

XPathQueryImpl
```
public interface XPathQuery
extends java.io.Serializable
```
This class represents a XPath query, which an org.apache.xalan.xpath.XPathProcessor is able to handle.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2004/05/30 11:54:45 $

Author:

SMB

See Also:

org.apache.xalan.xpath.XPathProcessor

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`XObject`	`execute(org.w3c.dom.Node rootNode)`	Execute the xpath.
`void`	`setNamespace(org.w3c.dom.Node namespace)`
`void`	`setNodeFilter(org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeFilter filter)`
`void`	`setQString(java.lang.String qstring)`

Method Detail

setQString

void setQString(java.lang.String qstring)
         throws java.lang.Exception

Throws:: java.lang.Exception

setNamespace

void setNamespace(org.w3c.dom.Node namespace)
           throws java.lang.Exception

Throws:: java.lang.Exception

setNodeFilter

void setNodeFilter(org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeFilter filter)
            throws java.lang.Exception

Throws:: java.lang.Exception

execute
```
XObject execute(org.w3c.dom.Node rootNode)
         throws java.lang.Exception
```
Execute the xpath.

Parameters:

rootNode - The node from which the query should start or null.

Returns:

The XObject insulating the query result.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception