I'm all for evaluate(). What does it return? An Object or a List?
-Mark
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From: "bob mcwhirter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 2:49 PM
Subject: [Jaxen] Naming...
>
> 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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