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/* Copyright (c) 2012-2017 The ANTLR Project. All rights reserved.
* Use of this file is governed by the BSD 3-clause license that
* can be found in the LICENSE.txt file in the project root.
*/
#pragma once
#include "antlr4-common.h"
namespace antlr4 {
namespace tree {
namespace xpath {
/// Represent a subset of XPath XML path syntax for use in identifying nodes in
/// parse trees.
///
/// <para>
/// Split path into words and separators {@code /} and {@code //} via ANTLR
/// itself then walk path elements from left to right. At each separator-word
/// pair, find set of nodes. Next stage uses those as work list.</para>
///
/// <para>
/// The basic interface is
/// <seealso cref="XPath#findAll ParseTree.findAll"/>{@code (tree, pathString, parser)}.
/// But that is just shorthand for:</para>
///
/// <pre>
/// <seealso cref="XPath"/> p = new <seealso cref="XPath#XPath XPath"/>(parser, pathString);
/// return p.<seealso cref="#evaluate evaluate"/>(tree);
/// </pre>
///
/// <para>
/// See {@code org.antlr.v4.test.TestXPath} for descriptions. In short, this
/// allows operators:</para>
///
/// <dl>
/// <dt>/</dt> <dd>root</dd>
/// <dt>//</dt> <dd>anywhere</dd>
/// <dt>!</dt> <dd>invert; this must appear directly after root or anywhere
/// operator</dd>
/// </dl>
///
/// <para>
/// and path elements:</para>
///
/// <dl>
/// <dt>ID</dt> <dd>token name</dd>
/// <dt>'string'</dt> <dd>any string literal token from the grammar</dd>
/// <dt>expr</dt> <dd>rule name</dd>
/// <dt>*</dt> <dd>wildcard matching any node</dd>
/// </dl>
///
/// <para>
/// Whitespace is not allowed.</para>
class ANTLR4CPP_PUBLIC XPath {
public:
static const std::string WILDCARD; // word not operator/separator
static const std::string NOT; // word for invert operator
XPath(Parser *parser, const std::string &path);
virtual ~XPath() {}
// TO_DO: check for invalid token/rule names, bad syntax
virtual std::vector<XPathElement> split(const std::string &path);
/// Return a list of all nodes starting at {@code t} as root that satisfy the
/// path. The root {@code /} is relative to the node passed to
/// <seealso cref="#evaluate"/>.
virtual std::vector<ParseTree *> evaluate(ParseTree *t);
protected:
std::string _path;
std::vector<XPathElement> _elements;
Parser *_parser;
/// Convert word like {@code *} or {@code ID} or {@code expr} to a path
/// element. {@code anywhere} is {@code true} if {@code //} precedes the
/// word.
virtual XPathElement getXPathElement(Token *wordToken, bool anywhere);
};
} // namespace xpath
} // namespace tree
} // namespace antlr4