How to evaluate an xpath expression against a dom tree in flow ?

[Marc Salvetti]

Hello,

I've been using flow with cforms for a while and the framework is great, 
but one thing that i found really uneasy is navigating in the dom tree 
with the dom api.

For exemple, i often do things like :
users = 
document.getDocumentElement().getElementsByTagName("users").item(0).getElementsByTagName("user");
and then i have to iterate all nodes to find the one i want :
for(var i=0; i < users.getLength(); i++){
   //Test each node against a property eg : id to find the node i want
  if(users.item(i).getAttribute('id').equals("foo")){
     //The node is finally found...
 }
}

Now i would like to know if there is a class somewhere in the cocoon 
distribution that allows to use the much more convenient xpath syntax to 
navigate in the dom.

Hopefully, sth like user = Utils.evalSax(document, 
"authentication/users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'foo']");

Does something similar to this exist ?

Thanks,

Marc

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