net.sf.saxon.value

Class Cardinality

public final class Cardinality extends Object

This class contains static methods to manipulate the cardinality property of a type. Cardinality of expressions is denoted by one of the values ONE_OR_MORE, ZERO_OR_MORE, ZERO_OR_ONE, EXACTLY_ONE, or EMPTY. These are combinations of the three bit-significant values ALLOWS_ZERO, ALLOWS_ONE, and ALLOWS_MANY.
Method Summary
static booleanallowsMany(int cardinality)
Determine whether multiple occurrences are allowed
static booleanallowsZero(int cardinality)
Determine whether empty sequence is allowed
static booleanexpectsMany(Expression expression)
Determine whether multiple occurrences are not only allowed, but likely.
static StringgetOccurrenceIndicator(int cardinality)
Get the occurence indicator representing the cardinality
static intmultiply(int c1, int c2)
Multiply two cardinalities
static booleansubsumes(int c1, int c2)
Test if one cardinality subsumes another.
static intsum(int c1, int c2)
Add two cardinalities
static StringtoString(int cardinality)
Display the cardinality as a string
static intunion(int c1, int c2)
Form the union of two cardinalities.

Method Detail

allowsMany

public static boolean allowsMany(int cardinality)
Determine whether multiple occurrences are allowed

Parameters: cardinality the cardinality of a sequence

Returns: true if the cardinality allows the sequence to contain more than one item

allowsZero

public static boolean allowsZero(int cardinality)
Determine whether empty sequence is allowed

Parameters: cardinality the cardinality of a sequence

Returns: true if the cardinality allows the sequence to be empty

expectsMany

public static boolean expectsMany(Expression expression)
Determine whether multiple occurrences are not only allowed, but likely. This returns false for an expression that is the atomization of a singleton node, since in that case it's quite unusual for the typed value to be a non-singleton sequence.

Parameters: expression an expression

Returns: true if multiple occurrences are not only allowed, but likely. Return false if multiple occurrences are unlikely, even though they might be allowed. This is typically the case for the atomized sequence that is obtained by atomizing a singleton node.

getOccurrenceIndicator

public static String getOccurrenceIndicator(int cardinality)
Get the occurence indicator representing the cardinality

Parameters: cardinality the cardinality value

Returns: the occurrence indicator, for example "*", "+", "?", "".

multiply

public static int multiply(int c1, int c2)
Multiply two cardinalities

Parameters: c1 the first cardinality c2 the second cardinality

Returns: the product of the cardinalities, that is, the cardinality of the sequence "for $x in S1 return S2", where c1 is the cardinality of S1 and c2 is the cardinality of S2

subsumes

public static boolean subsumes(int c1, int c2)
Test if one cardinality subsumes another. Cardinality c1 subsumes c2 if every option permitted by c2 is also permitted by c1.

Parameters: c1 a cardinality c2 another cardinality

Returns: true if if every option permitted by c2 is also permitted by c1.

sum

public static int sum(int c1, int c2)
Add two cardinalities

Parameters: c1 the first cardinality c2 the second cardinality

Returns: the cardinality of a sequence formed by concatenating the sequences whose cardinalities are c1 and c2

toString

public static String toString(int cardinality)
Display the cardinality as a string

Parameters: cardinality the cardinality value to be displayed

Returns: the representation as a string, for example "zero or one", "zero or more"

union

public static int union(int c1, int c2)
Form the union of two cardinalities. The cardinality of the expression "if (c) then e1 else e2" is the union of the cardinalities of e1 and e2.

Parameters: c1 a cardinality c2 another cardinality

Returns: the cardinality that allows both c1 and c2