Package org.jaxen.function

Class ConcatFunction

java.lang.Object

org.jaxen.function.ConcatFunction

All Implemented Interfaces:

Function

public class ConcatFunction
extends Object
implements Function

4.2 string concat(string,string,string*)

Concatenates its arguments and returns the resulting string.

Author:

bob mcwhirter (bob@werken.com)

See Also:

Section 4.2 of the XPath Specification

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ConcatFunction()	Create a new ConcatFunction object.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Object	call(Context context, List args)	Concatenates the arguments and returns the resulting string.
static String	evaluate(List list, Navigator nav)	Converts each item in the list to a string and returns the concatenation of these strings.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ConcatFunction

public ConcatFunction()

Create a new ConcatFunction object.

Method Detail

call

public Object call(Context context,
                   List args)
            throws FunctionCallException

Concatenates the arguments and returns the resulting string. Non-string items are first converted to strings as if by the XPath string() function.

Specified by:

call in interface Function

Parameters:

context - the context at the point in the expression when the function is called

args - the list of strings to be concatenated

Returns:

a String containing the concatenation of the items of args

Throws:

FunctionCallException - if args has less than two items

evaluate

public static String evaluate(List list,
                              Navigator nav)

Converts each item in the list to a string and returns the concatenation of these strings. If necessary, each item is first converted to a String as if by the XPath string() function.

Parameters:

list - the items to be concatenated

nav - ignored

Returns:

the concatenation of the arguments