XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

John Cowan wrote:


> I think this is Oll Korrect except for the continuing inability to represent
> distinct adjacent XPath text nodes in the result.  This means, for instance, 
> that
> counting the XPath nodes that match some criterion gives different results
> inside an XPath predicate and in Java.

There's no such thing as "adjacent XPath text nodes". This simply does 
not exist in the XPath data model. The results returned do contain 
properly ordered, adjacent XOM Text objects.

XOM does not expose any public API for counting XPath nodes. XOM counts 
XOM nodes and XPath counts XPath nodes. They are not the same thing.

We're arguing off on the edges here. I think most users are going to 
ignore this completely and get exactly the results they expect.

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