Yikes!
Did I write that code? (Anyone else want to claim it?)
Elliotte, you're certainly right that that seems wacky.
Keep those comments rolling in, and I'll try to take some time in the
next few days to correct as many as I can. (I have no Day Job now,
so that should be easy).
James, how much (if any) will this wreck havoc with the dom4j integration?
-bob
btw, cool that you're including Jaxen in the book. So far, most folks
tend to ignore both Jaxen (and SAXPath) and dom4j when talking about
how to do XML with Java. What a shame.
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> I've begun work on the jaxen section of Processing XML with Java,
> http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/
>
> Along the way I'll probably note a few things. First off the bat,
> consider these three methods in org.jaxen.BaseXPath:
>
> public String <http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/String.html>
>*valueOf*(Object
><http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html> context) throws
>JaxenException <cid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> public boolean *booleanValueOf*(Object
><http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html> context) throws
>JaxenException <cid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> public Number <http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/Number.html>
>*numberValueOf*(Object
><http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html> context) throws
>JaxenException
>
> <cid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Their names are inconsistent. I suggest the first be renamed
> stringValueOf(). This is also more consistent with the XPath spec which
> generally refers to the "string-value" of a node, rather than just the
> value of a node. The latter is perhaps the more common expression in
> XSLT circles, but here string-value is clearly correct..
>
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