jelly-tags/xml/src/java/org/apache/commons/jelly/tags/xml/ExprTag.java

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package org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.xml;

import org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException;
import org.apache.commons.jelly.MissingAttributeException;
import org.apache.commons.jelly.XMLOutput;
import org.apache.commons.jelly.xpath.XPathTagSupport;
import org.jaxen.JaxenException;
import org.jaxen.XPath;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/** A tag which performs a string XPath expression; similar to <xsl:value-of>
  * in XSLT
  *
  * @author <a href="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</a>
  * @version $Revision: 1.5 $
  */
public class ExprTag extends XPathTagSupport {

    /** The XPath expression to evaluate. */
    private XPath select;

    public ExprTag() {
    }

    // Tag interface
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public void doTag(XMLOutput output) throws MissingAttributeException, JellyTagException {
        Object xpathContext = getXPathContext();

        if (select == null) {
            throw new MissingAttributeException( "select" );
        }

        try {
            String text = select.stringValueOf(xpathContext);
            if ( text != null ) {
                output.write(text);
            }
        }
        catch (SAXException e) {
            throw new JellyTagException(e);
        }
        catch (JaxenException e) {
            throw new JellyTagException(e);
        }
    }

    // Properties
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /** Sets the XPath expression to evaluate. */
    public void setSelect(XPath select) {
        this.select = select;
    }
}