• To: "K. Ari Krupnikov" <ari@c...>
• Subject: Re: [proposal] XPath API for Java
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:23:52 +0100
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K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:

> Expression.getMatchingNodes().item(0).toString is not the same as
> Expression.getStringValue(), the latter, in XPath, gives you a
> concatenation of all descendant text nodes.
> 
> getBooleanValue() would follow XPath hopefully 1.0) rules of casting
> things to booleans, not Java. Same for numbers.
> 
> [...]
> 
> XPath recovers silently from cast errors.

All true and not things I'd considered. I'll need to go away and 
think on it.

Bill de hÓra

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