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+// Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+// All rights reserved.
+// This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+// under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+// which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+// at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+//
+// Initial Contributors:
+// Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+//
+// Contributors:
+//
+// Description:
+// XPath Utils
+//
+
+
+
+/**
+ @file
+ @publishedAll
+ @released
+*/
+#ifndef XMLENGXPATHUTILS_H
+#define XMLENGXPATHUTILS_H
+
+#include <xml/dom/xmlengnodeset.h>
+
+/**
+Implements utility functions such as conversion methods for XPath objects.
+
+The XPath specification considers a node result as a set of only one node,
+however, in this API it is possible to perform conversion routines 
+directly on nodes.
+*/
+class XmlEngXPathUtils
+    {
+public:
+	/**
+	Converts node to number
+	@param aNode Node to be converted
+	@return The number represented by the node or NaN if cannot convert.
+	@leave KErrNoMemory Memory allocation failure
+	*/    
+    IMPORT_C static TReal ToNumberL(const TXmlEngNode& aNode);
+
+	/**
+	Converts a node-set to a number by taking the node in the node set that
+	appears first in the document and converting that to a number.
+
+	@param aNodeSet Node-set to be converted	 	 
+	@return The number represented by the node set or NaN if cannot convert.
+	@leave KErrNoMemory Memory allocation failure
+	*/    
+    IMPORT_C static TReal ToNumberL(const RXmlEngNodeSet& aNodeSet);
+
+	/**
+	Converts TBool value to TReal
+	@param aValue TBool value to be converted
+	@return 1.0 if ETrue and 0.0 otherwise
+	@leave - Does not leave
+	*/     
+    IMPORT_C static TReal ToNumberL(TBool aValue);
+    
+	/**
+	Converts a string to a number
+	@param aString String to be converted
+	@return The number respresented by the string or NaN if cannot convert.
+	@leave KErrNoMemory Memory allocation failure
+	*/     
+    IMPORT_C static TReal ToNumberL(const TDesC8& aString);
+
+	/**
+	Converts a node to a string.  Any existing text in aOutput is destroyed.
+	This method allocates memory for the buffer.
+
+	@param aNode The node to be converted
+	@param aOutput A buffer owned by the caller that holds the returned string
+	@leave KErrNoMemory Memory allocation failure
+	*/ 
+    IMPORT_C static void ToStringL(const TXmlEngNode& aNode, RBuf8& aOutput );
+
+	/**
+	Converts a node-set to a string by taking the node in the node set that
+	appears first in the document and converting that to a string.  Any
+	existing text in aOutput is destroyed.  This method allocates memory for
+	the buffer.
+
+	@param aNodeSet The node-set to be converted
+	@param aOutput A buffer owned by the caller that holds the returned string
+	@leave KErrNoMemory Memory allocation failure
+	*/     
+	IMPORT_C static void ToStringL(const RXmlEngNodeSet& aNodeSet, RBuf8&
+			aOutput );
+
+	/**
+	Converts a TBool value to a string.  Any existing text in aOutput is
+	destroyed.  This method allocates memory for the buffer.
+
+	@param aValue The TBool value to be converted
+	@param aOutput A buffer owned by the caller that holds the returned string.
+	"true" if ETrue and "false" otherwise.
+	@leave KErrNoMemory Memory allocation failure
+	*/     
+    IMPORT_C static void ToStringL(TBool aValue, RBuf8& aOutput );
+
+	/**
+	Converts a TReal value to a string.  Any existing text in aOutput is
+	destroyed.  This method allocates memory for the buffer.
+
+	@param aValue The TReal value to be converted
+	@param aOutput A buffer owned by the caller that holds the returned string.
+	@leave KErrNoMemory Memory allocation failure
+	*/      
+    IMPORT_C static void ToStringL(TReal aValue, RBuf8& aOutput );
+
+	/**
+	Converts a node to a TBool
+	@param aNode Node to be converted
+	@return ETrue if the node is not NULL, EFalse otherwise
+	*/
+    IMPORT_C static TBool ToBoolean(const TXmlEngNode& aNode);
+
+	/**
+ 	Converts a node-set to a TBool
+	@param aNodeSet Node-set to be converted
+	@return ETrue if the nodeset is not NULL, EFalse otherwise
+	*/    
+    IMPORT_C static TBool ToBoolean(const RXmlEngNodeSet& aNodeSet);
+
+	/**
+	Converts a string to a TBool
+	@param aValue String that should be converted
+	@return ETrue if the string is not an empty string, EFalse otherwise
+	*/    
+    IMPORT_C static TBool ToBoolean(const TDesC8& aValue);
+
+	/**
+	Converts a string to a TBool
+	@deprecated This function is deprecated and will be removed in future
+	releases.  ToBoolean() should be used instead.
+	@param aValue String that should be converted
+	@return ETrue if the string is not an empty string, EFalse otherwise
+	@leave - Does not leave
+	*/    
+    IMPORT_C static TBool ToBooleanL(const TDesC8& aValue);
+
+	/**
+	Converts a TReal value to a TBool
+	@param aValue TReal value to be converted
+	@return EFalse if aValue is NaN or 0.0, ETrue otherwise
+	*/    
+    IMPORT_C static TBool ToBoolean(TReal aValue);
+
+private:
+	/** Default constructor */ 
+    inline XmlEngXPathUtils();
+    };	
+
+#include <xml/dom/xmlengxpathutils.inl>
+
+#endif /* XMLENGXPATHUTILS_H */
+