XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

> > The one thing I really agonized over was what the type of the value 
> > should be. Possibilities include:
> > 
> > 1. A String, which most stylesheet engines can convert to 
> numbers; but 
> > not booleans; at least not in an obvious way. That is, 
> "false" is true.
> 
> I favor this.  Most stylesheets probably expect string or numeric
> parameters, and it's easy to have the sheet coerce any boolean values
> correctly.  I think that JAXP uses Object just to punt on the issue.


It *must* be possible to pass in a XOM document as the value of the
parameter; ideally any node, or list of nodes.

Michael Kay