Module jdk.xml.dom
Package org.w3c.dom.xpath
package org.w3c.dom.xpath
Provides interfaces for DOM Level 3 XPath Specification. The XPath module
 provides simple functionalities to access a DOM tree using
 XPath 1.0.
 
 The interfaces and classes in this package came from
 Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification,
 Working Draft 20 August 2002. Refer to
 
 Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification, Version 1.0,
 W3C Working Group Note 26 February 2004 except that the values of
 XPathException.INVALID_EXPRESSION_ERR and XPathException.TYPE_ERR
 are 1 and 2 respectively (instead of 51 and 52).
- Since:
- 1.4
- 
ClassDescriptionThe evaluation of XPath expressions is provided byXPathEvaluator.A new exception has been created for exceptions specific to these XPath interfaces.TheXPathExpressioninterface represents a parsed and resolved XPath expression.TheXPathNamespaceinterface is returned byXPathResultinterfaces to represent the XPath namespace node type that DOM lacks.TheXPathNSResolverinterface permitprefixstrings in the expression to be properly bound tonamespaceURIstrings.TheXPathResultinterface represents the result of the evaluation of an XPath 1.0 expression within the context of a particular node.