Class ItemsStarting

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    Callable, FunctionItem, GroundedValue, Item, Sequence
    Direct Known Subclasses:
    ItemsStarting.ItemsAfter, ItemsStarting.ItemsFrom

    public abstract class ItemsStarting
    extends SystemFunction
    This class supports the two extension functions saxon:items-from and saxon:items-after, also available as experimental XPath 4.0 functions in the fn namespace. These functions take two arguments: the first is a sequence of items, the second is a function used as a predicate to determine the first item to be included in the result. The functions differ in whether the matching item is included in the result or not.
    • Constructor Detail

      • ItemsStarting

        public ItemsStarting()
    • Method Detail

      • includeMatchingItem

        protected abstract boolean includeMatchingItem()
      • call

        public Sequence call​(XPathContext context,
                             Sequence[] arguments)
                      throws XPathException
        Evaluate this function call at run-time
        Parameters:
        context - The XPath dynamic evaluation context
        arguments - The values of the arguments to the function call.
        Returns:
        the results of the function, as a sequence of arrays
        Throws:
        XPathException - if a dynamic error occurs during evaluation of the function. The Saxon run-time code will add information about the error location.