Using XPATH with DOM returned by getDOM()

hi,
I am a newbie to httpunit. I would like to extract different pieces of data 
from a html page. The elements I want to extract data from are not 
necessarily

tables or elements that have ids so that makes it hard to get to them using 
the standard webresponse methods. However I can get to the elements by

traversing the dom (returned by getDOM) using the DOM methods. I would 
prefer to use XPATH instead of  traversing the DOM as this meets my 
requirements perfectly.
I tried using xpath with different libraries e.g dom4j as described in the 
following post
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=08077D82-1680-11D9-B9CB-000502F60B20%40httpunit.org
which did not work for me. As the author of the post notes "I'm fine using a 
patched version internally so 'response.getDOM()' doesn't fail, so that's 
not a

problem.". I am assuming he has internal version of httpunit and has 
modified the getDOM method.

I also tried using jaxen but result always comes back empty.

I have validated my xpath is correct using xpath explorer on my document.

Can any one provide me any help in being able to extract data using XPath 
from the DOM returned by httpunit. I am also open to using XQuery but looks 
like

the issue at is getting a DOM that can be used by XPATH or XQUERY.

If anyone has any sample code that shows how to use XPATH with httpunit dom, 
I would greatly appreciate the help. If it needs modifications to the source 
to

get it to work, please provide those as well. Not something I am looking 
forward to, but am prepared to roll up sleeves just in case.
I am using version httpunit-1.6.2.
Thanks
-Milind



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