[jdom-interest] XPathFactory object model string

[Jason Hunter]

It's come to my attention that JAXP 1.3 (and J2SE 5.0 which bundles JAXP 
1.3) have a new XPathFactory class to provide standard hooks to XPath 
engines.

One of the XPathFactory's methods is isObjectModelSupported(String) that 
you use to ask the engine if it supports a particular object model like 
DOM or JDOM.  The DOM standard string is 
"http://java.sun.com/jaxp/xpath/dom".  For JDOM I've chosen 
"http://jdom.org/jaxp/xpath/jdom".

I'm writing this email and will add a note to the website and Javadocs 
so that XPath implementors supporting JDOM and JAXP 1.3 will know what 
string to use to indicate JDOM support.

For more info on JAXP 1.3:
http://norman.walsh.name/2004/10/26/jaxp13

New addition to the JDOM to do list: look into supporting JAXP 1.3 from 
JDOM, esp utilizing its XPath support and possibly validation.

-jh-