public String asPath()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jxpath/ri/model/jdom/JDOMNodePointer.java [637:695]
53 lines of code
12 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());
        }
        if (node instanceof Element) {
            // If the parent pointer is not a JDOMNodePointer, it is
            // the parent's responsibility to produce the node test part
            // of the path
            if (parent instanceof JDOMNodePointer) {
                if (buffer.length() == 0
                    || buffer.charAt(buffer.length() - 1) != '/') {
                    buffer.append('/');
                }
                final String nsURI = getNamespaceURI();
                final String ln = JDOMNodePointer.getLocalName(node);

                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(']');
                    }
                }

            }
        }
        else if (node instanceof Text || node instanceof CDATA) {
            buffer.append("/text()");
            buffer.append('[').append(getRelativePositionOfTextNode()).append(
                ']');
        }
        else if (node instanceof ProcessingInstruction) {
            buffer.append("/processing-instruction(\'").append(((ProcessingInstruction) node).getTarget()).append(
                "')");
            buffer.append('[').append(getRelativePositionOfPI()).append(
                ']');
        }
        return buffer.toString();
    }