XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com>]

> BTW:  I did see an XOM example somewhere, where a person showed you do
> something
> like:  doc.query("/*:tag1/*:tag2");   so as to wildcard or ignore namespace
> issues (which is
> what I wanted to do).  But XOM threw an exception about having a colon in
> the xpath.
> Is this doable?
This is XPath 2.0 syntax. I think XOM still only comes with an XPath 1.0 
engine built-in. You can use an external XPath 2.0 engine though: Saxon 
works with XOM input.

Michael Kay
Saxonica