Paul Brown wrote:
>
> > Is there a better list for such a question?
>
> There is no better list anywhere or for anything... at least as far as
> low-level Xalan stuff goes.
>
> > In our application (Cocoon 2 based) we currently make extensive use of
> > the XPathAPI.selectNodeList() function to return DocumentFragments to
> > the calling functions.
>
> You can browse the Javadoc and get some ideas of what you need to do to use
> the XPath functionality outside of the XPathAPI wrapper.
Another thing you can do is take a look at the source code for dbXML's
XPathQueryResolver. It uses the low-level Xalan XPath engine both to
perform query optimization and to execute XPath's against document
subsets. (http://www.dbxml.org) The class of interest is
org.dbxml.core.query.XPathQueryResolver
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