/*
 * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
#if !defined(XPATH_WRAPPER_HEADER_GUARD_1357924680)
#define XPATH_WRAPPER_HEADER_GUARD_1357924680


#include <xalanc/Include/PlatformDefinitions.hpp>


#include <xalanc/PlatformSupport/DOMStringHelper.hpp>


#include <vector>


#if defined(XALAN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_TEMPLATE_INSTANTIATION)
#include <stl/_vector.c>
#endif


class XPathWrapperImpl;


class XPathWrapper
{

public:

	typedef XALAN_CPP_NAMESPACE_QUALIFIER CharVectorType	ChVectorType;

#if defined(XALAN_NO_STD_NAMESPACE)
	typedef vector<ChVectorType>		CharVectorTypeVectorType;	
#else
	typedef std::vector<ChVectorType>	CharVectorTypeVectorType;	
#endif	

	XPathWrapper();

	virtual
	~XPathWrapper();

	// Given an xml document and an xpath context and expression in the form of (ascii) string objects,
	// this function parses the XML document, evaluates the xpath and returns the result, as a list of 
	// string objects
	CharVectorTypeVectorType
	evaluate(
		const char*		xml, 
		const char*		context, 
		const char*		path);

private:

	// not implemented
	XPathWrapper(const XPathWrapper&);

	XPathWrapper&
	operator=(const XPathWrapper&);

	bool
	operator==(const XPathWrapper&) const;

	XPathWrapperImpl* const		pImpl;
};


#endif	// XPATH_WRAPPER_HEADER_GUARD_1357924680