net.sf.saxon.trans

Interface GlobalVariableManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

PrincipalStylesheetModule, PrincipalStylesheetModuleEE

public interface GlobalVariableManager

This interface provides access to a collection of global variables. This abstraction is used by the optimizer to handle the rather different ways that global variables are managed in XSLT and XQuery, as a result of XSLT packaging.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	addGlobalVariable(GlobalVariable variable) Add a global variable to the collection
GlobalVariable	getGlobalVariable(StructuredQName name) Get the global variable with a specific name
Collection<StructuredQName>	getGlobalVariableNames() Get the names of all global variables in the collection

Method Detail

getGlobalVariableNames

Collection<StructuredQName> getGlobalVariableNames()

Get the names of all global variables in the collection

Returns:

the collections of global variables

getGlobalVariable

GlobalVariable getGlobalVariable(StructuredQName name)

Get the global variable with a specific name

Parameters:

name - the name of the required global variable

Returns:

the global variable in question

addGlobalVariable

void addGlobalVariable(GlobalVariable variable)
                       throws XPathException

Add a global variable to the collection

Parameters:

variable - the variable to be added

Throws:

XPathException - if errors occur (some implementations of the method have side-effects, such as causing the variable declaration to be compiled)