Saxon

Legacy ID: #2872947 Legacy Poster: James Francis Cerra (quantum_jim)

One of my extension functions uses a custom implementation of SequenceIterator as an adapter wrapped around another program's iterator. Since SequenceIterator iterates over Item objects, I have to convert a Java Object to an Item in Java (i.e. I don't think I can use Saxon to do it for me - the class has to explicitly convert it). However, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this! Saxon, it seems can convert Value objects to Item objects, and Java Objects to Value objects. This resulted in the cumbersome code: public Item next() throws XPathException { // Get the next item in the sequence. if (results.hasNext()) { currentItem = Value.asItem( Value.convertJavaObjectToXPath( results.next(), null ), null ); return currentItem; } else { return null; } } (Where results's class implements java.util.Iterator.) Is there a less hacky way of converting an arbitrary Java Object to an Item? P.S. The net.sf.saxon.value.Value class has a horribly horribly generic name! There was a namespace collision with the other program I was using, and I had to import it explicitly (i.e. without "net.sf.saxon.value.*"). net.sf.saxon.om.Item also has an odd name. These two function should be renamed, if possible.