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/*
 * $Id: ApplyXPath.java 470245 2006-11-02 06:34:33Z minchau $
 */
// This file uses 4 space indents, no tabs.

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

/**
 *  Very basic utility for applying an XPath epxression to an xml file and printing information
 /  about the execution of the XPath object and the nodes it finds.
 *  Takes 2 arguments:
 *     (1) an xml filename
 *     (2) an XPath expression to apply to the file
 *  Examples:
 *     java ApplyXPath foo.xml /
 *     java ApplyXPath foo.xml /doc/name[1]/@last
 * @see XPathAPI
 */
public class ApplyXPath {
    protected String filename = null;
    protected String xpath = null;

    /** Process input args and execute the XPath.  */
    public void doMain(String[] args) throws Exception {
        filename = args[0];
        xpath = args[1];

        if ((filename != null) && (filename.length() > 0) && (xpath != null) && (xpath.length() > 0)) {
            // Tell that we're loading classes and parsing, so the time it 
            // takes to do this doesn't get confused with the time to do 
            // the actual query and serialization.
            System.out.println("Loading classes, parsing " + filename + ", and setting up serializer");

            // Set up a DOM tree to query.
            InputSource in = new InputSource(new FileInputStream(filename));
            DocumentBuilderFactory dfactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            dfactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
            Document doc = dfactory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(in);

            // Set up an identity transformer to use as serializer.
            Transformer serializer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            serializer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");

            // Use the simple XPath API to select a nodeIterator.
            System.out.println("Querying DOM using " + xpath);
            NodeIterator nl = XPathAPI.selectNodeIterator(doc, xpath);

            // Serialize the found nodes to System.out.
            System.out.println("<output>");

            Node n;
            while ((n = nl.nextNode()) != null) {
                if (isTextNode(n)) {
                    // DOM may have more than one node corresponding to a 
                    // single XPath text node.  Coalesce all contiguous text nodes
                    // at this level
                    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(n.getNodeValue());
                    for (Node nn = n.getNextSibling(); isTextNode(nn); nn = nn.getNextSibling()) {
                        sb.append(nn.getNodeValue());
                    }
                    System.out.print(sb);
                } else {
                    serializer.transform(new DOMSource(n), new StreamResult(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out)));
                }
                System.out.println();
            }
            System.out.println("</output>");
        } else {
            System.out.println("Bad input args: " + filename + ", " + xpath);
        }
    }

    /** Decide if the node is text, and so must be handled specially */
    static boolean isTextNode(Node n) {
        if (n == null)
            return false;
        short nodeType = n.getNodeType();
        return nodeType == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE || nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE;
    }

    /** Main method to run from the command line.    */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        if (args.length != 2) {
            System.out.println("java ApplyXPath filename.xml xpath\n"
                    + "Reads filename.xml and applies the xpath; prints the nodelist found.");
            return;
        }

        ApplyXPath app = new ApplyXPath();
        app.doMain(args);
    }

} // end of class ApplyXPath