XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

> The more i think about the adjacent text node issue the more 
> i think i 
> can't be handled cleanly inside an XPath impl running over 
> XOM, even if 
> one wanted to handle it. If an XPath impl merges text nodes into a 
> virtual (but not actual) text node, what's the XOM parent 
> node of that virtual text node?

You need to think in terms of two views: the XOM view, and the XPath view.
The merged node appears only in the XPath view, it should never be visible
in the XOM view. An XPath expression that finds the merged node should
return the first corresponding text node back across the API, it should not
make the merged node visible. This way, both views of the tree are
consistent in their own terms.

I think this can be made to work.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/