>  I wander if Saxon has this option ?  Or any other processor 
> that can do both while one (XPath) is independent.

Saxon allows you to do XPath queries directly from Java, but only if you
built the tree using Saxon: not on an arbitrary DOM. Saxon's DOM
implementation is restricted in that it does not allow in-situ update (it
only provides the functionality needed for XSLT).

Mike Kay


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