private XMLElement evaluateElementPointerPart()

in src/main/java/org/apache/maven/xinclude/stax/XMLElementEvaluator.java [85:104]

• 17 lines of code
• 6 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    private XMLElement<T> evaluateElementPointerPart(ElementPointerPart elementPointerPart) {
        if (elementPointerPart.hasChildSequence() && elementPointerPart.hasNCName()) { // Both NCName and childSequence.
            // Find NCName.
            XMLElement<T> element = evaluateShorthandPointer(elementPointerPart.getNCName());
            if (element == null) {
                return null;
            }
            // Walk through children.
            return evaluateChildSequence(element, elementPointerPart.getChildSequence());
        } else if (elementPointerPart.hasNCName()) { // Only NCName
            return evaluateShorthandPointer(elementPointerPart.getNCName());
        } else { // Only a childSequence
            // XML must only have 1 root element so we can't evaluate it if its > 1
            List<Integer> childSequence = elementPointerPart.getChildSequence();
            if (childSequence.get(0) > 1) {
                return null;
            }
            return evaluateChildSequence(root, childSequence.subList(1, childSequence.size()));
        }
    }