Why not consider doing without Xalan? At least on some stages? Say, 1) load initial document into in-memory DOM; 2) manipulate and modify this DOM using XPath and whatsoever until final satisfaction :) 3) use Xalan for serialization of the resulting document.
Regards, Sergey Ushakov P.S. Perhaps "xalan-j-users" might be a better playground for this discussion... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sergey Petrunia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:08 PM Subject: Is there any way to evaluate Xpath on a writeable document? > Hello, > I am using Xalan in application that needs to > 1. evaluate an XPath expression on document > 2. modify the source document > 3. repeat steps 1-2 several times. > The problem is that parsing the source document the way it is done in > XPath API samples gives a readonly document, so in step 3 I have to > construct a new document and feed it back to Xalan, which makes code > slow and complicated. Is there any way to evaluate Xpath expressions on > a writeable document in Xalan? > > BR > --Sergey Petrunia > >
