public String asPath()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jxpath/ri/model/dom/DOMNodePointer.java [506:570]
60 lines of code
13 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public String asPath() {
        if (id != null) {
            return "id('" + escape(id) + "')";
        }

        final StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
        if (parent != null) {
            buffer.append(parent.asPath());
        }
        switch (node.getNodeType()) {
            case Node.ELEMENT_NODE :
                // If the parent pointer is not a DOMNodePointer, it is
                // the parent's responsibility to produce the node test part
                // of the path
                if (parent instanceof DOMNodePointer) {
                    if (buffer.length() == 0
                            || buffer.charAt(buffer.length() - 1) != '/') {
                        buffer.append('/');
                    }
                    final String ln = DOMNodePointer.getLocalName(node);
                    final String nsURI = getNamespaceURI();
                    if (nsURI == null) {
                        buffer.append(ln);
                        buffer.append('[');
                        buffer.append(getRelativePositionByQName()).append(']');
                    }
                    else {
                        final String prefix = getNamespaceResolver().getPrefix(nsURI);
                        if (prefix != null) {
                            buffer.append(prefix);
                            buffer.append(':');
                            buffer.append(ln);
                            buffer.append('[');
                            buffer.append(getRelativePositionByQName());
                            buffer.append(']');
                        }
                        else {
                            buffer.append("node()");
                            buffer.append('[');
                            buffer.append(getRelativePositionOfElement());
                            buffer.append(']');
                        }
                    }
                }
            break;
            case Node.TEXT_NODE :
            case Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE :
                buffer.append("/text()");
                buffer.append('[');
                buffer.append(getRelativePositionOfTextNode()).append(']');
                break;
            case Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE :
                buffer.append("/processing-instruction(\'");
                buffer.append(((ProcessingInstruction) node).getTarget()).append("')");
                buffer.append('[');
                buffer.append(getRelativePositionOfPI()).append(']');
                break;
            case Node.DOCUMENT_NODE :
                // That'll be empty
                break;
            default:
                break;
        }
        return buffer.toString();
    }