[AXIOM] XPath selecting node that does not exist

[Thorsten Scherler]

Hi all,

I started to use AXIOM in Forrest to replace some old DOM code that is
still lurking around. 

Now I am trying to select a node with a given xpath:
...
 String xlocation = iterator.next();
 AXIOMXPath xpath = new AXIOMXPath(xlocation);
 OMElement injection = (OMElement)xpath.selectSingleNode(root);
...
  if(null==injection){
   log.debug("Path is not already contained, "+
       "so we need to create it.");
      }
...

I searched a bit in the code but could not find any method that will
create a element if the xpath expression is not given. Well much like:
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/apidocs/org/apache/cocoon/xml/dom/DOMUtil.html#selectSingleNode(org.w3c.dom.Node,
 java.lang.String, org.apache.excalibur.xml.xpath.XPathProcessor) but only for 
StAX/Axiom.

I there something that I can reuse? 

If not, is there interest that I create a patch for AXIOMXPath and
implement this functionality?

salu2
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