net.sf.saxon.expr
Class PositionIterator

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.saxon.expr.PositionIterator

All Implemented Interfaces:

LookaheadIterator, SequenceIterator

public class PositionIterator

extends java.lang.Object

implements SequenceIterator, LookaheadIterator

A PositionIterator selects a subsequence of a sequence

Method Summary

Item	current() Get the current value in the sequence (the one returned by the most recent call on next()).
SequenceIterator	getAnother() Get another iterator to return the same nodes
boolean	hasNext() Test whether there are any more items available in the enumeration
static SequenceIterator	make(SequenceIterator base, int min, int max) Static factory method.
Item	next() Get the next item if there is one
int	position() Get the current position.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

make

public static SequenceIterator make(SequenceIterator base,
                                    int min,
                                    int max)
                             throws XPathException

Static factory method. Creates a PositionIterator, unless the base Iterator is an ArrayIterator, in which case it optimizes by creating a new ArrayIterator directly over the underlying array. This optimization is important when doing recursion over a node-set using repeated calls of $nodes[position()>1]

Parameters:

base - An iteration of the items to be filtered

min - The position of the first item to be included (base 1)

max - The position of the last item to be included (base 1)

Throws:

XPathException

hasNext

public boolean hasNext()

Test whether there are any more items available in the enumeration

Specified by:

hasNext in interface LookaheadIterator

Returns:

true if there are more nodes

next

public Item next()
          throws XPathException

Get the next item if there is one

Specified by:

next in interface SequenceIterator

Returns:

the next item, or null if there are no more items. Once a call on next() has returned null, no further calls should be made. The preferred action for an iterator if subsequent calls on next() are made is to return null again, and all implementations within Saxon follow this rule.

Throws:

XPathException - if an error occurs retrieving the next item

current

public Item current()

Description copied from interface: SequenceIterator

Get the current value in the sequence (the one returned by the most recent call on next()). This will be null before the first call of next(). This method does not change the state of the iterator.

Specified by:

current in interface SequenceIterator

Returns:

the current item, the one most recently returned by a call on next(). Returns null if next() has not been called, or if the end of the sequence has been reached.

position

public int position()

Description copied from interface: SequenceIterator

Get the current position. This will usually be zero before the first call on next(), otherwise it will be the number of times that next() has been called. Once next() has returned null, the preferred action is for subsequent calls on position() to return -1, but not all existing implementations follow this practice. (In particular, the EmptyIterator is stateless, and always returns 0 as the value of position(), whether or not next() has been called.)

This method does not change the state of the iterator.

Specified by:

position in interface SequenceIterator

Returns:

the current position, the position of the item returned by the most recent call of next(). This is 1 after next() has been successfully called once, 2 after it has been called twice, and so on. If next() has never been called, the method returns zero. If the end of the sequence has been reached, the value returned will always be <= 0; the preferred value is -1.

getAnother

public SequenceIterator getAnother()
                            throws XPathException

Get another iterator to return the same nodes

Specified by:

getAnother in interface SequenceIterator

Returns:

a SequenceIterator that iterates over the same items, positioned before the first item

Throws:

XPathException - if any error occurs