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package gnu.xml.xpath;

import java.util.List;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**
 * The <code>string function converts an object to a string as follows:
 * <ul>
 * <li>A node-set is converted to a string by returning the string-value of
 * the node in the node-set that is first in document order. If the node-set
 * is empty, an empty string is returned.</li>
 * <li>A number is converted to a string as follows
 * <ul>
 * <li>NaN is converted to the string NaN</li>
 * <li>positive zero is converted to the string 0</li>
 * <li>negative zero is converted to the string 0</li>
 * <li>positive infinity is converted to the string Infinity</li>
 * <li>negative infinity is converted to the string -Infinity</li>
 * <li>if the number is an integer, the number is represented in decimal
 * form as a Number with no decimal point and no leading zeros, preceded by
 * a minus sign (-) if the number is negative</li>
 * <li>otherwise, the number is represented in decimal form as a Number
 * including a decimal point with at least one digit before the decimal
 * point and at least one digit after the decimal point, preceded by a minus
 * sign (-) if the number is negative; there must be no leading zeros before
 * the decimal point apart possibly from the one required digit immediately
 * before the decimal point; beyond the one required digit after the decimal
 * point there must be as many, but only as many, more digits as are needed
 * to uniquely distinguish the number from all other IEEE 754 numeric
 * values.</li>
 * </ul>
 * </li>
 * <li>The boolean false value is converted to the string false. The boolean
 * true value is converted to the string true.</li>
 * <li>An object of a type other than the four basic types is converted to a
 * string in a way that is dependent on that type.</li>
 * </ul>
 * If the argument is omitted, it defaults to a node-set with the context
 * node as its only member.
 *
 * @author <a href='mailto:dog@gnu.org'>Chris Burdess</a>
 */
final class StringFunction
  extends Expr
{

  final Expr arg;

  StringFunction(List args)
  {
    this(args.size() > 0 ? (Expr) args.get(0) : null);
  }
  
  StringFunction(Expr arg)
  {
    this.arg = arg;
  }

  public Object evaluate(Node context, int pos, int len)
  {
    Object val = (arg == null) ? null : arg.evaluate(context, pos, len);
    return _string(context, val);
  }

  public Expr clone(Object context)
  {
    return new StringFunction((arg == null) ? null :
                              arg.clone(context));
  }

  public String toString()
  {
    return (arg == null) ? "string()" : "string(" + arg + ")";
  }
  
}