[jdom-interest] XPath support

[bob mcwhirter]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Paul Chapman wrote:

>   1. The navigator is not implemented for performance.

It does the best it can. :)

>   2. JDOM is inherently slow - the performance stats do seem to
>      imply this, but Jaxen XPath/JDOM is slower than JDOM alone
>      for a simple search.

Yah, that too.

>   3. Jaxen XPath is intrinsicly not suited to work with a DOM (XPP
>      is a stream-like interface, reading one node at a time).

I don't understand this at all.  Jaxen -only- works on DOMesque
types of object trees.

> Did the JDOM team write the navigator for Jaxen?

No, I did.

> Could JDOM be enhanced to support it better?

It may be ugly, but if they could tag their nodes with an numeric
node-type, we could rid ourselves of lots of instanceof checks in the
Navigator.

Also, someone with a profiler might could find the hotspots in the
core xpath engine.

	-bob