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* Copyright 2003 Federal Chancellery Austria
* MOA-SPSS has been developed in a cooperation between BRZ, the Federal
* Chancellery Austria - ICT staff unit, and Graz University of Technology.
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package at.gv.egovernment.moa.spss.api.common;
import java.util.Map;
/**
* An XPath expression set operation.
*
* @author Patrick Peck
* @version $Id$
*/
public interface XPathFilter {
/** Subtract this filter's node set from the resulting node set. */
String SUBTRACT_TYPE = "subtract";
/** Intersect this filter's node set with the resulting node set. */
String INTERSECT_TYPE = "intersect";
/** Compute the union of this filter's node set and the resulting node set. */
String UNION_TYPE = "union";
/**
* Gets the type of this XPathFilter
.
*
* @return The type of this XPathFilter
.
*/
String getFilterType();
/**
* Gets the XPath expression for selecting the nodes.
*
* @return The XPath expression for selecting the nodes.
*/
String getXPathExpression();
/**
* Gets The namespace prefix to URI mapping used during evaluation of the XPath
* expression.
*
* @return The namespace prefix to URI mapping.
*/
Map getNamespaceDeclarations();
}