Hi, I tried both JDOM and now JDOM2.
For JDOM2, XPathFactory xpfac = XPathFactory.instance(); XPathExpression xp = xpfac.compile("//foo/bar"); The xp is null. For JDOM, XPath xp = XPath.newInstance("//foo/bar"); The xp is null. Both work in the simple java application. I tried to putting the JDOM jar in webapps/axis2/WEB-INF/lib along with Jaxen - doesn't do a thing. Any ideas? Best regards, -a