net.sf.saxon.evpull

Class EventIteratorOverSequence

Implemented Interfaces:
EventIterator, PullEvent

public class EventIteratorOverSequence
extends java.lang.Object
implements EventIterator

This class maps a SequenceIterator to an EventIterator, by simply returning the items in the sequence as PullEvents.

Constructor Summary

EventIteratorOverSequence(SequenceIterator base)
Create an EventIterator that wraps a given SequenceIterator

Method Summary

boolean
isFlatSequence()
Determine whether the EventIterator returns a flat sequence of events, or whether it can return nested event iterators
PullEvent
next()
Get the next PullEvent in the sequence

Constructor Details

EventIteratorOverSequence

public EventIteratorOverSequence(SequenceIterator base)
Create an EventIterator that wraps a given SequenceIterator
Parameters:
base - the SequenceIterator to be wrapped

Method Details

isFlatSequence

public boolean isFlatSequence()
Determine whether the EventIterator returns a flat sequence of events, or whether it can return nested event iterators
Specified by:
isFlatSequence in interface EventIterator
Returns:
true if the next() method is guaranteed never to return an EventIterator

next

public PullEvent next()
            throws XPathException
Get the next PullEvent in the sequence
Specified by:
next in interface EventIterator
Returns:
the next PullEvent
Throws:
XPathException - in case of a dynamic error