XPathResult

• What you get fby evaluating an XPath expression

• There is an impedance mismatch between strongly typed Java and weakly typed XPath here.

• Java Binding:

  package org.w3c.dom.xpath;
  
  public interface XPathResult {
  
    public static final short ANY_TYPE                     = 0;
    public static final short NUMBER_TYPE                  = 1;
    public static final short STRING_TYPE                  = 2;
    public static final short BOOLEAN_TYPE                 = 3;
    public static final short UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE = 4;
    public static final short ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE   = 5;
    public static final short UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE = 6;
    public static final short ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE   = 7;
    public static final short ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE      = 8;
    public static final short FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE      = 9;
  
    public short   getResultType();
  
    public double  getNumberValue() throws XPathException;
    public String  getStringValue() throws XPathException;
    public boolean getBooleanValue() throws XPathException;
    public Node    getSingleNodeValue() throws XPathException;
  
    public boolean getInvalidIteratorState();
    public int     getSnapshotLength() throws XPathException;
    public Node    iterateNext() throws XPathException, DOMException;
  
    public Node    snapshotItem(int index) throws XPathException;
  
  }