[jdom-interest] XPath bindings?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 1:46 PM -0500 10/13/01, philip.nelson at omniresources.com wrote:

>Not completely.  It would seem kind of silly to have an xpath statement with
>[position()=1] and then have to retrieve it from a list anyway.
>
>Element theNode = (Element)(selectNodes("/some/xpath[position()=1]").get(1))
>
>compared to 
>
>Element theNode = (Element) selectSingleNode("/some/xpath[position()=1]")
>

I still don't like this, but if we're going to do it I suggest that the method be called selectFirstNode() rather than selectSingleNode(). It's a little more descriptive, and no harder to type. 
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