Bridging a discussion from jdom-interest...
I know we have XPath.selectNodes(), but it doesn't necessarily return
a list of nodes. As mentioned in the previous message, any xpath expr
is legal, and thus, selectNodes("4 + 8") doesn't return any nodes,
but rather an Integer (or is it a Double now?)
I'm all for keeping the methods we have now, since folks are using
them, and I don't really want to break existing code. But, howsabout
adding a more-semantically-valid method called evaluate(...) which
behaves exactly as selectNodes() does now. Deprecate selectNodes(),
and phase it out over time, maybe.
-bob
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