James,

James,

> I'm wondering about solving this problem in a slightly different way, by
> providing an XPath extension function.

That would be a nice alternative solution! Would even be better
than my suggestion.

Except for my request for an numericAttributeValue() method,
which isn't covered by your solution.

I understand that you have to make choices when designing the API.
My request for numericAttributeValue() was triggered by the fact
that the method numericValueOf already exists, so a wouldn't be too
different from the rest.

> Since if the first XPath expression doesn't return anything the second one
> will be used. This is nice as it can be arbitrarily long such as

But what if the first XPath expression does return a value, will the
end result not contain both values (instead of only the first)?

Silvain




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