XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Lance Eason wrote:
> We had a similar need.  The way we approached it was to use Jaxen's
> ability to register a Java class containing custom functions via a
> namespace declaration.  We wrapped adding that declaration to
> XPath/XQuery expressions within a utility function:

It looks like you're using NUX, not XOM; and XQuery instead of XPath. if 
that's an option, that might be the simplest approach.


> public class XQueryUtil
> {
>     public static Nodes xquery(Node node, String xpath)
>     {
>         // automatically make our custom functions available
>         xpath = "declare namespace
> big='java:com.betweenmarkets.document.BMIFunctions';\n" + xpath;
>         
>         return nux.xom.xquery.XQueryUtil.xquery(node, xpath);
>     }
> }




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