XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Nils_Kilden-Pedersen AT Countrywide.Com]

xom-interest-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote on 01/12/2005 12:28:39 PM:

> XOM is limiting the contents of the returned Nodes object to the usual 
> XOM node types (Element, Attribute, Comment, Text, Document, etc.). the 
> question therefore arise what should I do when an XPath expression 
> return something else. In particular, it may return:
> 
> Double
> String
> Boolean
> Internal classes such as NamespaceNode and DocumentFragment
> 
> In particular, should XOM
> 
> 1. Throw an exception?
> 
> or
> 
> 2. Remove the offending objects from the result list and return a 
> potentially empty Nodes object?

I'm wondering if that'll limit the usefulness of an XOM XPath 
implementation to be close to zero?

Anyway, what about:

3. Return Double, String, Boolean as Text?