----- Original Message ----- From: "bob mcwhirter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I vote "nay" to a navigator registry, and "ecch" to anything remotely > > resembling the JDBC API. > > Lemme expound on my personal position... > > I personally don't really find anything too wrong with the current > implementation, aside from the split between JaXPath and BaseXPath. > That's only there for assisting in testing some things, and I'm > certain they could be worked around. > > I personally don't care for any dynamic, run-time discovery of > the object-model to pick the right navigator. I just don't really > see the point. > > Suggestions I've made here are simply because folks keep saying > "Something *must* be done!". So, might as well throw in my > thoughts for possible solutions. But I'm not convinced anything > really needs to be done. > > So, let's take a step backwards, and justify anything reflection-related. > > Why do we really need it? Use-cases, anyone?
I agree with you bob. Though I do like the idea of a generic XPath object too. The use case is JSTL (the JSP Standard Tag Library) which has a bunch of XPath related tags which are based on XPath. It would be really cool to have a flexible XPath implementation that could autodetect whether a JSP user was working with DOM, dom4j, EXML, JDOM et al - provided the performance overhead is pretty minimal. So we could have org.jaxen.BaseXPath org.jaxen.dom.XPath org.jaxen.dom4j.XPath org.jaxen.jdom.XPath etc. Then when folks are working with one model in their code they can use the import to denote which XPath object they use. Then if folks wanna be generic the can use (say) org.jaxen.generic.XPath BTW I find DOMXPath, Dom4jXPath, JDOMXPath idea all very ugly class names - I far prefer to use package names to namespace these things. The use of the name XPath for all different model-centric object is similar to most XML models naving an Element and Document type - they don't call them JDOMElement or DOMDocument etc. James _______________________________________________ Jaxen-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest
