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+/*
+ * Copyright 2005-2011 the original author or authors.
+ * 
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.wamblee.xml;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
+
+/**
+ * Represents a namespace context and is a factory for creating xpath expressions. 
+ * @author Erik Brakkee
+ */
+public class XPathContext {
+    private XPath xpath; 
+    
+    /**
+     * Constructs the context. 
+     * @param aContext Namespaces.
+     */
+    public XPathContext(NamespaceContext aContext) { 
+        xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
+        xpath.setNamespaceContext(aContext);
+    }
+    
+    public static XPathContext xpathcontext(NamespaceContext aContext) { 
+        return new XPathContext(aContext);
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Creates the expression. 
+     * @param aExpression XPath expression. 
+     * @return Xpath expression. 
+     * @throws XMLException
+     */
+    public XPathExpression createExpression(String aExpression) throws XMLException { 
+        return new XPathExpression(xpath, aExpression);
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * To get access to the lower level API. 
+     * @return Lower level API. 
+     */
+    public XPath getXpath() {
+        return xpath;
+    }
+}