com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.utils.PrefixResolverDefault Java Examples

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext(JdkXmlUtils.OVERRIDE_PARSER_DEFAULT);

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 * Take the received string, which is an XML query expression, compile it, and
 * store the compiled query locally. Note that for now, we only support XPath
 * because that's what Xalan supports.
 * 
 * @param queryExpr
 *          The XPath expression to compile
 */
public void compileXQExpr(final String queryExpr, final String opName,
    final DocumentBuilder dBuilder) throws StandardException {
  try {

    /* The following XPath constructor compiles the expression
     * as part of the construction process.  We have to pass
     * in a PrefixResolver object in order to avoid NPEs when
     * invalid/unknown functions are used, so we just create
     * a dummy one, which means prefixes will not be resolved
     * in the query (Xalan will just throw an error if a prefix
     * is used).  In the future we may want to revisit this
     * to make it easier for users to query based on namespaces.
     */
    query = new XPath(queryExpr, null, new PrefixResolverDefault(
        dBuilder.newDocument()), XPath.SELECT);

  } catch (Throwable te) {

    /* Something went wrong during compilation of the
     * expression; wrap the error and re-throw it.
     * Note: we catch "Throwable" here to catch as many
     * Xalan-produced errors as possible in order to
     * minimize the chance of an uncaught Xalan error
     * (such as a NullPointerException) causing Derby
     * to fail in a more serious way.  In particular, an
     * uncaught Java exception like NPE can result in
     * Derby throwing "ERROR 40XT0: An internal error was
     * identified by RawStore module" for all statements on
     * the connection after the failure--which we clearly
     * don't want.  If we catch the error and wrap it,
     * though, the statement will fail but Derby will
     * continue to run as normal. 
     */
    throw StandardException.newException(SQLState.LANG_XML_QUERY_ERROR, te,
        opName, te.getMessage());

  }
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 * Take the received string, which is an XML query expression, compile it, and
 * store the compiled query locally. Note that for now, we only support XPath
 * because that's what Xalan supports.
 * 
 * @param queryExpr
 *          The XPath expression to compile
 */
public void compileXQExpr(final String queryExpr, final String opName,
    final DocumentBuilder dBuilder) throws StandardException {
  try {

    /* The following XPath constructor compiles the expression
     * as part of the construction process.  We have to pass
     * in a PrefixResolver object in order to avoid NPEs when
     * invalid/unknown functions are used, so we just create
     * a dummy one, which means prefixes will not be resolved
     * in the query (Xalan will just throw an error if a prefix
     * is used).  In the future we may want to revisit this
     * to make it easier for users to query based on namespaces.
     */
    query = new XPath(queryExpr, null, new PrefixResolverDefault(
        dBuilder.newDocument()), XPath.SELECT);

  } catch (Throwable te) {

    /* Something went wrong during compilation of the
     * expression; wrap the error and re-throw it.
     * Note: we catch "Throwable" here to catch as many
     * Xalan-produced errors as possible in order to
     * minimize the chance of an uncaught Xalan error
     * (such as a NullPointerException) causing Derby
     * to fail in a more serious way.  In particular, an
     * uncaught Java exception like NPE can result in
     * Derby throwing "ERROR 40XT0: An internal error was
     * identified by RawStore module" for all statements on
     * the connection after the failure--which we clearly
     * don't want.  If we catch the error and wrap it,
     * though, the statement will fail but Derby will
     * continue to run as normal. 
     */
    throw StandardException.newException(SQLState.LANG_XML_QUERY_ERROR, te,
        opName, te.getMessage());

  }
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext(JdkXmlUtils.OVERRIDE_PARSER_DEFAULT);

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext(JdkXmlUtils.OVERRIDE_PARSER_DEFAULT);

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext(JdkXmlUtils.OVERRIDE_PARSER_DEFAULT);

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public static XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)
  XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext(JdkXmlUtils.OVERRIDE_PARSER_DEFAULT);

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}
 

/**
 *  Evaluate XPath string to an XObject.
 *  XPath namespace prefixes are resolved from the namespaceNode.
 *  The implementation of this is a little slow, since it creates
 *  a number of objects each time it is called.  This could be optimized
 *  to keep the same objects around, but then thread-safety issues would arise.
 *
 *  @param contextNode The node to start searching from.
 *  @param str A valid XPath string.
 *  @param namespaceNode The node from which prefixes in the XPath will be resolved to namespaces.
 *  @return An XObject, which can be used to obtain a string, number, nodelist, etc, should never be null.
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XObject
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNull
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XBoolean
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XNumber
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XString
 *  @see com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.objects.XRTreeFrag
 *
 * @throws TransformerException
 */
public  XObject eval(Node contextNode, String str, Node namespaceNode)
        throws TransformerException
{

  // Since we don't have a XML Parser involved here, install some default support
  // for things like namespaces, etc.
  // (Changed from: XPathContext xpathSupport = new XPathContext();
  //    because XPathContext is weak in a number of areas... perhaps
  //    XPathContext should be done away with.)

  // Create an object to resolve namespace prefixes.
  // XPath namespaces are resolved from the input context node's document element
  // if it is a root node, or else the current context node (for lack of a better
  // resolution space, given the simplicity of this sample code).
  PrefixResolverDefault prefixResolver = new PrefixResolverDefault(
    (namespaceNode.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE)
    ? ((Document) namespaceNode).getDocumentElement() : namespaceNode);

  // Create the XPath object.
  XPath xpath = new XPath(str, null, prefixResolver, XPath.SELECT, null);

  // Execute the XPath, and have it return the result
  // return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, contextNode, prefixResolver);
  int ctxtNode = xpathSupport.getDTMHandleFromNode(contextNode);

  return xpath.execute(xpathSupport, ctxtNode, prefixResolver);
}