XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Andrew Thompson wrote:

> There's really no way to specify any kind of wildcard or range is there?
> Wow. This seriously limits what you can do with XInclude doesn't it? Is 
> there anything on the horizon that has anything like the power of the 
> xpointer() scheme? Are you fundamentally opposed to implementing some 
> sort of xpath support for use with XInclude?

Not fundamentally opposed. However, doing so is quite tricky, so barring 
funding it's not going to happen tomorrow. (i.e. if someone wanted to 
pay me to add this, I could put it in. It's just not on the top of my 
TODO list.) The most likely scenario is implementing the xpath scheme 
rather than the xpointer scheme. At least the xpath scheme doesn't 
introduce two new node types to deal with.

For your immediate use, I'd suggest adding IDs to the elements you wish 
to include.

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