1. /*

  2.  * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.

  3.  *

  4.  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  5.  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  6.  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  7.  *

  8.  *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  9.  *

  10.  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  11.  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  12.  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  13.  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

  14.  * limitations under the License.

  15.  */

  16. /*

  17.  * $Id: NodeTestFilter.java,v 1.5 2004/02/17 04:35:37 minchau Exp $

  18.  */

  19. package com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.patterns;

  20. 

  21. /**

  22.  * This interface should be implemented by Nodes and/or iterators,

  23.  * when they need to know what the node test is before they do

  24.  * getNextChild, etc.

  25.  */

  26. public interface NodeTestFilter

  27. {

  28. 

  29.   /**

  30.    * Set the node test for this filter.

  31.    *

  32.    *

  33.    * @param nodeTest Reference to a NodeTest that may be used to predetermine 

  34.    *                 what nodes to return.

  35.    */

  36.   void setNodeTest(NodeTest nodeTest);

  37. }