: Interface AxisEnumeration

com.icl.saxon.om
Interface AxisEnumeration

All Superinterfaces:

LastPositionFinder, NodeEnumeration

All Known Implementing Classes:

SingletonEnumeration, EmptyEnumeration

public interface AxisEnumeration

extends NodeEnumeration, LastPositionFinder

A NodeEnumeration is used to iterate over a list of nodes. An AxisEnumeration is a NodeEnumeration that throws no exceptions; it also supports the ability to find the last() position, again with no exceptions.

Method Summary

int	getLastPosition() Get the last position
boolean	hasMoreElements() Determine whether there are more nodes to come.
NodeInfo	nextElement() Get the next node in sequence.

Methods inherited from interface com.icl.saxon.om.NodeEnumeration

isPeer, isReverseSorted, isSorted

Method Detail

hasMoreElements

public boolean hasMoreElements()

Determine whether there are more nodes to come.
(Note the term "Element" is used here in the sense of the standard Java Enumeration class, it has nothing to do with XML elements).

Specified by:

hasMoreElements in interface NodeEnumeration

Returns:

true if there are more nodes

nextElement

public NodeInfo nextElement()

Get the next node in sequence.
(Note the term "Element" is used here in the sense of the standard Java Enumeration class, it has nothing to do with XML elements).

Specified by:

nextElement in interface NodeEnumeration

Returns:

the next NodeInfo

getLastPosition

public int getLastPosition()

Get the last position

Specified by:

getLastPosition in interface LastPositionFinder