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List:       xerces-j-user
Subject:    Re: Creating DOM using XPath
From:       "Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-12-16 17:48:34
Message-ID: 7870f82e0812160936k16d79bb1x410faa7918c396 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Shah Asrani <shahasrani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I agree  that it will be very difficult to handle all possible xpath expressions.

it's actually impossible. Constructing a DOM tree from XPath
expression is a wrong problem definition, as we have discussed so far
in this thread.

> /a/b/c

We can construct a small (perhaps very small) subset of the full DOM
tree for this XPath expression. With this XPath expression, we cannot
know how many b or c children are there.


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

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