[jdom-interest] JDOM && Jaxen

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 12:47 PM -0700 8/1/01, Jason Hunter wrote:


>XPath was clearly created with DOM in mind and without much regard to
>other potential object models, and as a result providing XPath support
>in other object models drives the models to approach DOM in look and
>feel.
>

I wouldn't say that. There's a lot of weirdness in the intersection between DOM and XPath as well. I think it's more accurate to say that XPath was created without any particular object model in mind. That's why it defines it's own data model for an XML document, that is quite a bit different from DOM's and JDOM's. 
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