[jdom-interest] JDOM && Jaxen

[bob mcwhirter]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Jason Hunter wrote:

> > Yah, sure, it's a useless XPath expression, but it stands between
> > us and full XPath compliance.
> 
> Is that all?

No, I'm sure there are more things that'll keep us away from full
compliance.  My thought is that JDOM, the most popular non-DOM
Java implementation supports the w3c recommendation less than
dom4j or EXML.  I'd hate for The King Of Alternative DOMs to 
be deficient.

> Well, you have elt.getAdditionalNamespaces() to know which are declared
> on an element.  Whether that element's own namespace (the one it's in)
> is declared at that level depends on if it's necessary or not based on
> what's above it in the hierarchy.

Hokie dokie.

I'll find a way.

	-bo