[jdom-interest] JDOM && Jaxen

Jason Hunter jhunter at acm.org
Wed Aug 1 17:39:49 PDT 2001


bob mcwhirter wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Jason Hunter wrote:
> 
> > > Yah, sure, it's a useless XPath expression, but it stands between
> > > us and full XPath compliance.
> >
> > Is that all?
> 
> No, I'm sure there are more things that'll keep us away from full
> compliance.  

Too bad.  But I'm glad you're making such progress.

> My thought is that JDOM, the most popular non-DOM
> Java implementation supports the w3c recommendation less than
> dom4j or EXML.

Perhaps there's a correlation?  Yikes, just kidding!  I agree with you.

> I'll find a way.

Cool, happy to continue discussions, but there's a lot of reasons
namespaces work like they do.  We started the same way as EXML, but it's
lousy because you move an element and its namespace can change on you. 
Surprise!

-jh-



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