public XMLTableColumnDefinition() 
{

}

 public XMLTableColumnDefinition(String name,
    String expression,
    int type) 
{
        this.name = name;
        this.type = type;
        this.xpath = createXPath(expression);
}

 public XMLTableColumnDefinition(String name,
    XPath xpath,
    int type) 
{
        this.name = name;
        this.xpath = xpath;
        this.type = type;
}

 public XMLTableColumnDefinition(XPath columnXPath,
    XPath xpath,
    int type) 
{
        this.xpath = xpath;
        this.columnNameXPath = columnXPath;
        this.type = type;
}

 protected XPath createXPath(String expression) 
{
        return DocumentHelper.createXPath(expression);
}

 public Class getColumnClass() 
{
        switch (type) {
            case STRING_TYPE:
                return String.class;
            case NUMBER_TYPE:
                return Number.class;
            case NODE_TYPE:
                return Node.class;
            default:
                return Object.class;
        }
}

 public XPath getColumnNameXPath() 
{
        return columnNameXPath;
}

DOCUMENT ME!

 public String getName() 
{
        return name;
}

Getter for property name.

 public int getType() 
{
        return type;
}

Getter for property type.

 public Object getValue(Object row) 
{
        switch (type) {
            case STRING_TYPE:
                return xpath.valueOf(row);
            case NUMBER_TYPE:
                return xpath.numberValueOf(row);
            case NODE_TYPE:
                return xpath.selectSingleNode(row);
            default:
                return xpath.evaluate(row);
        }
}

 public XPath getXPath() 
{
        return xpath;
}

Getter for property xpath.

 protected  void handleException(Exception e) 
{
        // #### should use jakarta commons-logging
        System.out.println("Caught: " + e);
}

 public static int parseType(String typeName) 
{
        if ((typeName != null) && (typeName.length()  > 0)) {
            if (typeName.equals("string")) {
                return STRING_TYPE;
            } else if (typeName.equals("number")) {
                return NUMBER_TYPE;
            } else if (typeName.equals("node")) {
                return NODE_TYPE;
            }
        }
        return OBJECT_TYPE;
}

 public  void setColumnNameXPath(XPath columnNameXPath) 
{
        this.columnNameXPath = columnNameXPath;
}

Setter for property columnNameXPath.

 public  void setName(String name) 
{
        this.name = name;
}

Setter for property name.

 public  void setType(int type) 
{
        this.type = type;
}

Setter for property type.

 public  void setXPath(XPath xPath) 
{
        this.xpath = xPath;
}

Setter for property xpath.