XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

John Cowan wrote:

> The difficulty is that the value of an XPath expression of type nodeset
> is a set of nodes (lower case referring to the XPath data model), whereas
> your proposed API returns a set (or rather a sequence, but that's no
> problem) of Nodes (title case referring to objects of class Node).
> There is no way to reliably map a sequence of Nodes into a sequence of
> nodes without examining the tree itself.


Good point, though it's actually the unorderedness of the set that's 
tricky here. I'll have to look at the API and implementation but I think 
I can guarantee that at an absolute minimum the XOM Text objects making 
up an XPath text node do not get reshuffled. That is, they will be 
returned in the same order they appeared in in the input document.

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