XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Watson, John" <JWatson AT satelliteinfo.co.uk>]

> Elliotte Harold  wrote:
>
>Could you tell more about your application? It sounds interesting.

The interpreter is for a proprietary XML-based XML update language.

Actually, now I come to think about it, the application itself relies just
on node-sets.  It's my test cases that are written in XPath and these need
Booleans and numeric values, but these are not so critical.

Sorry to have misled you - even so I'd prefer the full set of types if they
were not too expensive.

John


-----Original Message-----
From: Elliotte Harold [mailto:elharo AT metalab.unc.edu] 
Sent: 13 January 2005 13:55
To: Watson, John
Cc: 'Michael Kay'; 'John Cowan'; xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org;
Nils_Kilden-Pedersen AT Countrywide.Com
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] New XPath issue: what to do with non-nodes?

Watson, John wrote:

> I couldn't agree more.  My application is an interpreter that generates
> XPath expressions and then applies them.  I rely pretty much on the full
set
> of types that XPath expressions may return.  If XOM restricts itself just
to
> node-sets, I'm afraid I'm much less inclined to use it.

Could you tell more about your application? It sounds interesting.

Also a relevant question: if XOM allows full types for XPath return 
values from the query method, is this likely to be sufficient for your 
needs, or are you likely to use something like NUX or Saxon anyway to 
get compiled expressions, variables, extension functions, XPath 2.0, 
and/or XQuery?

If a small change would enable a lot more use cases, then I'm inclined 
to consider it. However, if a lot more is required then I suspect I'll 
just refer people to NUX and Saxon.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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