XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Michael Abato wrote:

> Another reason a developer may prefer XPath over java code is that it 
> allows you to move the details of the data model into declarative 
> configuration. This is particularly appealing in IoC/DI infrastructures 
> (SpringFramework, PicoContainer, HiveMind, etc.) which bind objects at 
> runtime and minimize concrete object coupling. Moving the XPath 
> expression external decouples runtime objects from the concrete data 
> model as well.

I haven't worked with these. Would such frameworks be likely to 
serialize booleans, numbers, and strings as XPath expressions? Or would 
these simply be strings in an XML file somewhere? i.e. what sort of 
XPath expressions do these frameworks use? Concrete examples would be 
helpful.

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