XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Mike Miller <mm8041 AT gmail.com>]

See, life could be Simple  ;-)   But if I want it to be, I now need to
configure XOM
with another XPATH engine, which results in more challenges.  I just want my

document data, is that too much to ask ;-)

Thanks for the input and quick response time, much appreciated,
Mike

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com> wrote:

>
> 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
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