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Re: [XOM-interest] XOM - XPath to query Boolean values

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT ibiblio.org>
To: christophe.marchand AT axyus.com, XOM API for Processing XML with Java <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] XOM - XPath to query Boolean values
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:35:05 -0400

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Christophe Marchand
<christophe.marchand AT axyus.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to get anything else than a Nodes (IE a Boolean, String,
> etc...) via XPath on a XOM tree ? Especially, I'm interested in querying
> true() or false() XPath functions...

No, this was a deliberate 80/20 decision. The XPath type system
doesn't integrate very cleanly with the Java type system, and most
boolean/numeric/string operations are better done in Java anyway.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT ibiblio.org

[XOM-interest] XOM - XPath to query Boolean values, Christophe Marchand, 10/15/2009
- Re: [XOM-interest] XOM - XPath to query Boolean values, Michael Kay, 10/15/2009
- Re: [XOM-interest] XOM - XPath to query Boolean values, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 10/15/2009