    001    /*
    002     * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
    003     * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
    004     * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
    005     * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
    006     * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
    007     * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
    008     *
    009     *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
    010     *
    011     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
    012     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
    013     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
    014     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
    015     * limitations under the License.
    016     */
    017    package org.apache.commons.jxpath;
    018
    019    /**
    020     * More complete implementation for the XPath <code>"key()"</code> function.
    021     * Returns NodeSet results and allows Object values for better compatibility
    022     * with non-XML graphs.
    023     *
    024     * @author Sergey Vladimirov
    025     * @author Matt Benson
    026     * @since JXPath 1.3
    027     * @version $Revision: 652845 $ $Date: 2008-05-02 12:46:46 -0500 (Fri, 02 May 2008) $
    028     */
    029    public interface ExtendedKeyManager extends KeyManager {
    030
    031        /**
    032         * Find a NodeSet by key/value.
    033         * @param context base
    034         * @param key String
    035         * @param value Object
    036         * @return NodeSet found
    037         */
    038        NodeSet getNodeSetByKey(JXPathContext context, String key, Object value);
    039
    040    }