XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Jan 8, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Michael Kay wrote:

> > > public Nodes query(String xpath) throws ToBeDeterminedException
> > > public Nodes query(String xpath, Map namespaceBindings)
> > >   throws ToBeDeterminedException
>
> It occurred to me that you could handle expressions returning a string,
> boolean, or number by wrapping the result in a specially-created Text 
> node.
> This would be better than offering only a restricted subset of XPath.

That would be possible, but probably overkill as it exposes a huge 
(W3C) type system that's rarely needed on output.
With Nux, the implicit conversions of atomic values to nodes on output 
are by default designed such that boolean, number, string, etc. can be 
nicely composed in orthogonal manners without the need of any 
convenience methods. As in:

int count = Integer.parseInt(new XQuery("count(//*)", 
null).execute(contextNode).next().getValue());