Re: JDOM and XPath API

Created issue https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/issues/45 to track 
XPath 2.0

By my estimate it would make sense to possibly run concurrent interfaces 
if we go with an XPath 2.0 implementation.... in other words, have both 
an XPath and an XPath2.0 interface.

That way we can contiue to support those libraries that have not (yet) 
made the leap.

Rolf

On 09/19/2011 04:28 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
>
>> Further, with that change, the XPath class can easily become an 
>> interface... which may improve the flexibility of some things.
>>
>> The XPathFactory class can have the same newInstance(), selectNodes() 
>> And selectSingleNode() methods which will in turn use a shortcut to 
>> the defaultFactory(). But, it can also be used to allow for different 
>> implementations of the factory.
>>
>
> The methods selectNodes() and selectSingleNode() are very XPath-1.0 
> oriented. If there's going to be an API change at this stage of the 
> game, it would really make sense to anticipate XPath 2.0. 
> Unfortunately that's potentially quite complex, for example how do you 
> handle an XPath expression that returns a sequence of dates? For two 
> attempts to solve this problem, you can look at the XQJ API and 
> Saxon's s9api API.
>
> Michael Kay
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