/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2009 Jesper Moller, and others
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     Jesper Moller - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.wst.xml.xpath2.api;

/**
 * Main API for the XPath2 processor.
 * 
 * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface XPath2Engine {

	/**
	 * Parse a full XPath2 expression and type check it against the static context
	 * (if it provides a type model to check against)
	 * 
	 * @param expression String representation of XPath2 expression
	 * @param context Static context for the expression.
	 * @return A compiled expression.
	 */
	XPath2Expression parseExpression(String expression, StaticContext context);
}