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> My process receives an xml doc, and uses a xpath expression
> i.e. x/y/z[2] to designate a node on which to perform a
> pagination operation. I am proceeding with a jaxp sax class
> that will walk through the doc and build the hierarchal node
> name in order to test against the xpath expression.
That's possible only for a very restricted subset of XPath (roughly the
subset used in XML Schema, for similar reasons). As soon as you get
something like
/x/y/z[t]
you're stuck: you can't test for that in a SAX application without
lookahead.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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