[jdom-interest] XPath selectSingleNode returns Boolean problem

[Jason Hunter]

I never saw a response on this.  Laurent, what was your original plan 
for handling things like this?

-jh-

Steven Shand wrote:

> The javadocs state that XPath.selectSingleNode can return node types 
> only (Element ,Attribute ,Text ,CDATA ,Comment or ProcessingInstruction)
> 
> However the code below return a Boolean.
> 
> String expression = "descendant-or-self::text() != ''"
> XPath xpath = XPath.newInstance( expression );
> Object match = xpath.selectSingleNode( element );
> 
> I guess this is a bug or am I missing something obvious?
> 
> Ironically, this behavior is just what I want!
> 
> Steven Shand
> 
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