org.apache.velocity.anakia
Class XPathCache

java.lang.Object
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class XPathCache

extends java.lang.Object

Provides a cache for XPath expressions. Used by NodeList and AnakiaElement to minimize XPath parsing in their selectNodes() methods.

Version:

$Id: XPathCache.java,v 1.1 2001/08/08 04:30:47 jon Exp $

Author:

Attila Szegedi

Field Summary

private static java.util.Map

XPATH_CACHE

Constructor Summary

private

XPathCache()

Method Summary

(package private) static com.werken.xpath.XPath

getXPath(java.lang.String xpathString) Returns an XPath object representing the requested XPath expression.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

XPATH_CACHE

private static final java.util.Map XPATH_CACHE

Constructor Detail

XPathCache

private XPathCache()

Method Detail

getXPath

static com.werken.xpath.XPath getXPath(java.lang.String xpathString)

Returns an XPath object representing the requested XPath expression. A cached object is returned if it already exists for the requested expression.

Parameters:

xpathString - the XPath expression to parse

Returns:

the XPath object that represents the parsed XPath expression.