XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

> For instance, would you want an 
> expression like count(div//node()) to return different values 
> depending 
> solely on how many Text objects made up the exact same 
> content? 

If the user controls how many text node objects there are, and if XOM gives
different results depending how many there are, then I'm happy for XPath to
do likewise. I think this is better than ./text()[contains(., "o")]
returning 4 text nodes of which only one contains an "o".

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