On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 12:26 PM, Mark Hortman wrote: > We are doing development using Jaxen, and while we find it fast, I had > some > thoughts that I would like to share. > We do a lot of construction of dynamic xpath statements, and a > colleague and > I got to thinking how cool it would be if jaxen supportd a JDBC like > PreparedStatement concept. This would allow me to say > > XPath xpath = new XPath("//girls/molecules[@id=?]"); > xpath.setString(1,"ChemicalX"); > > > We want this because the call to XPath constructor seems to be very > expensive. > > Any thoughts on this feature?
Isn't that what variables are for? XPath xpath = new XPath("//girls/molecules[@id=$value]"); then use the VariableContext when executing the expression. -pete -- peter royal -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Jaxen-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest