AuthorXPathExpressionBuilder (Oxygen XML API)

@API(type=NOT_EXTENDABLE,
     src=PUBLIC)
public interface AuthorXPathExpressionBuilder

Generates an XPath expression for an XML node.

Since:: 24

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`AuthorXPathExpressionBuilder`	`avoidNamespacePrefixes()`	Do not generate namespace prefixes.
`java.lang.String`	`getXpathExpresion()`	Get the XPath expression for the specified node.
`AuthorXPathExpressionBuilder`	`processChanges(boolean processChanges)`

- Method Detail
  - processChanges
```
AuthorXPathExpressionBuilder processChanges(boolean processChanges)
```
    Parameters:
    
    processChanges - If true the delete changes will be ignored.
    
    Returns:
    
    This instance for chaining.
  - avoidNamespacePrefixes
```
AuthorXPathExpressionBuilder avoidNamespacePrefixes()
```
    Do not generate namespace prefixes.
    For example, intead of generating an expression like the one below that uses namespace prefixes
    
    /db:article/db:sect1
    
    Generate an expression that use the full namespace URI for the element.
    
    /*[namespace-uri()='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook' and local-name()='article']/*[namespace-uri()='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook' and local-name()='sect1'][1]
    Returns:
    
    this instance for chaining.
  - getXpathExpresion
```
java.lang.String getXpathExpresion()
```
    Get the XPath expression for the specified node.
    
    Returns:
    
    XPath expression of the element for the current Node. Empty string if no XPath expression could be computed.