org.apache.velocity.anakia
Class XPathCache

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.velocity.anakia.XPathCache

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 1.1.10.1 2004/03/03 23:22:04 geirm 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, 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.