import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**
 * The XPathAPI class provides methods to evaluate XPath expressions and select nodes or node lists from an XML document.
 * It uses the javax.xml.xpath.XPath and javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory classes to create and evaluate XPath expressions.
 *
 * <p>Example usage:</p>
 * <pre>
 * {@code
 * XPathAPI xPathAPI = new XPathAPI();
 * NodeList nodes = xPathAPI.selectNodeList(contextNode, "//example");

    protected String targetNodePath = "//HTML/BODY | //@alt | //@title";

    /** Cache for XPathAPI instances to improve performance. */
    protected LoadingCache<String, XPathAPI> xpathAPICache;

    /** Cache duration in minutes for XPathAPI instances. */
    protected long cacheDuration = 10; // min

    /**
     * Creates a new HtmlXpathExtractor instance.
     */

    }

    /**
     * Gets a thread-local XPathAPI instance for thread-safe XPath evaluation.
     *
     * @return the XPathAPI instance for the current thread
     */
    protected XPathAPI getXPathAPI() {
        XPathAPI cachedXPathAPI = xpathAPI.get();
        if (cachedXPathAPI == null) {
            cachedXPathAPI = new XPathAPI();
            xpathAPI.set(cachedXPathAPI);
        }

                    @Override
                    public XPathAPI load(final String key) {
                        if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                            logger.debug("created XPathAPI by {}", key);
                        }
                        return new XPathAPI();
                    }
                });
    }

     * Gets the XPath API instance for this thread.
     *
     * @return the XPath API instance
     */
    protected XPathAPI getXPathAPI() {
        XPathAPI cachedXPathAPI = xpathAPI.get();
        if (cachedXPathAPI == null) {
            cachedXPathAPI = new XPathAPI();
            xpathAPI.set(cachedXPathAPI);
        }
        return cachedXPathAPI;
    }

    /**