Class JAXPVariable
- All Implemented Interfaces:
Binding
,VariableDeclaration
In Saxon terms, this class is both a VariableDeclaration and a Binding. Unlike a normal VariableDeclaration, it isn't created in advance, but is created on demand when the parser encounters a variable reference. This actually means that if the XPath expression contains two references to the same variable, two VariableDeclarations will be created; however, they will be indistinguishable to the VariableResolver. Acting as a VariableDeclaration, the object goes through the motions of fixing up a binding to a variable reference (in practice, of course, there is exactly one reference to the variable). Acting as a run-time binding, it then evaluates the variable by calling the XPathVariableResolver supplied by the API caller. If no XPathVariableResolver was supplied, an error is reported when a variable is encountered; but if the variable resolver doesn't recognize the variable name, it returns null, which is treated as an empty sequence.
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Constructor Summary
ConstructorsConstructorDescriptionJAXPVariable
(QNameValue name, XPathVariableResolver resolver) Private constructor: for use only be the protected factory method make() -
Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionevaluateVariable
(XPathContext context) Get the value of the variable.int
If this is a local variable held on the local stack frame, return the corresponding slot number.int
Establish the fingerprint of the name of this variable.Get the name of the variable.final boolean
Test whether it is permitted to assign to the variable using the saxon:assign extension element.boolean
isGlobal()
Indicate whether the binding is local or global.(package private) QName
makeQName
(QNameValue in) void
Method called by the XPath expression parser to register a reference to this variable.
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Constructor Details
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JAXPVariable
Private constructor: for use only be the protected factory method make()
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Method Details
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isGlobal
public boolean isGlobal()Indicate whether the binding is local or global. A global binding is one that has a fixed value for the life of a query or transformation; any other binding is local. -
isAssignable
public final boolean isAssignable()Test whether it is permitted to assign to the variable using the saxon:assign extension element. This will only be for an XSLT global variable where the extra attribute saxon:assignable="yes" is present.- Specified by:
isAssignable
in interfaceBinding
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getLocalSlotNumber
public int getLocalSlotNumber()If this is a local variable held on the local stack frame, return the corresponding slot number. In other cases, return -1.- Specified by:
getLocalSlotNumber
in interfaceBinding
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getVariableName
Get the name of the variable. Used for diagnostic purposes only.- Specified by:
getVariableName
in interfaceVariableDeclaration
- Returns:
- the name of the variable, as a string (containing the raw QName)
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getNameCode
public int getNameCode()Establish the fingerprint of the name of this variable. Dummy implementation, not used.- Specified by:
getNameCode
in interfaceVariableDeclaration
- Returns:
- -1, always
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registerReference
Method called by the XPath expression parser to register a reference to this variable. This method should not be called by users of the API.- Specified by:
registerReference
in interfaceVariableDeclaration
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evaluateVariable
Get the value of the variable. This method is used by the XPath execution engine to retrieve the value.- Specified by:
evaluateVariable
in interfaceBinding
- Parameters:
context
- The dynamic evaluation context- Returns:
- The value of the variable
- Throws:
XPathException
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makeQName
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