com.marklogic.xcc.types
Class ItemType

java.lang.Object
  com.marklogic.xcc.types.ValueType
      com.marklogic.xcc.types.ItemType

Direct Known Subclasses:

AtomicType, NodeType

public abstract class ItemType
extends ValueType

Each instance of this class corresponds to an XQuery schema type.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.marklogic.xcc.types.ValueType

ATTRIBUTE, BINARY, COMMENT, CTS_BOX, CTS_CIRCLE, CTS_POINT, CTS_POLYGON, DOCUMENT, ELEMENT, NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, SEQUENCE, TEXT, XS_ANY_URI, XS_BASE64_BINARY, XS_BOOLEAN, XS_DATE, XS_DATE_TIME, XS_DAY_TIME_DURATION, XS_DECIMAL, XS_DOUBLE, XS_DURATION, XS_FLOAT, XS_GDAY, XS_GMONTH, XS_GMONTH_DAY, XS_GYEAR, XS_GYEAR_MONTH, XS_HEX_BINARY, XS_INTEGER, XS_QNAME, XS_STRING, XS_TIME, XS_UNTYPED_ATOMIC, XS_YEAR_MONTH_DURATION

Method Summary

static ItemType	forType(String schemaTypeName)
abstract boolean	isAtomic() Implemented by subclasses.
abstract boolean	isNode() Implemented by subclasses.
boolean	isSequence() Always returns false.

Methods inherited from class com.marklogic.xcc.types.ValueType

toString, valueOf

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

isSequence

public final boolean isSequence()

Always returns false.

Specified by:

isSequence in class ValueType

Returns:

Always false for XdmItem types.

isNode

public abstract boolean isNode()

Implemented by subclasses.

Returns:

True for node item types, false otherwise.

isAtomic

public abstract boolean isAtomic()

Implemented by subclasses.

Returns:

True for atomic item types, false otherwise.

forType

public static ItemType forType(String schemaTypeName)

Parameters:

schemaTypeName - An XML Schema type name, such as "xs:integer".

Returns:

A typesafe enumeration member that represents the type, or null if the type name is not recognized. Note that type names are case-sensitive.