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  • From: John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>
  • To: Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.1: XPath
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:33:01 -0500

Wolfgang Hoschek scripsit:
> Nux already has XPath 2.0 support for XOM, by virtue of supporting
> XQuery.
> Also, saxon-8.2 implements the JAXP-1.3 XPath 1.0 API for XOM.
> Saxon (and by its virtue, Nux) actually is standards compliant, mature
> and stable, whereas most other engines are not. I've stopped using
> Jaxen as an XPath engine a year or so ago - I found it too buggy and
> slow.

Given that this works, I think that the built-in XPath (or XSLT pattern)
support should concentrate on being simple and fast rather than maximally
flexible or 100% compliant.

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