[jdom-interest] XPath & JDOM

[Scott Smith]

On further examination, seems implementing Node implies implementing
Document which implies implementing basically everything.  I guess it's
better just to extend Werken's work.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Smith [mailto:ssmith at summitlogic.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 5:27 PM
> To: 'jdom-interest at jdom.org'
> Subject: [jdom-interest] XPath & JDOM
> 
> 
> Please excuse me if this has already been discussed.
> 
> The org.apache.xpath package was designed such that it could be used
> independently of Xalan.  Seems like all we need to do to 
> support XPath (and
> not have to worry about it's maintenance) is implement some interface
> classes to provide the apache.xpath classes with what they 
> need to work.
> 
> It might be as easy as having org.jdom.element implement the
> org.w3c.dom.node interface.
> 
> Then we get complete XPath functionality for 'free'.
> 
> PS: I know of Werken's XPath stuff.  It is not complete.  And 
> it would seem
> more politically correct to use the Apache stuff anyway.
> 
> 
> 
> Scott P. Smith
> SummitLogic
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> 
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