Re: Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification

[for the record]

<anonymous> wrote:
> looks good.  My initial comments are this:
> 
> I'd like to see a XPathEvaluator interface expose only one method
> instead of the evaluatAs* methods.  It should be called compileXPath and
> should return an XPath object. so that you can turn an XPath statement
> into an XPath pre-evaluated, and reusable object.  That XPath object
> should expose the evaluation methods (minus the XPath string of course)
> and an additional method for determining the result type of the
> expression.
> 
> I'd like to see this XPath object expose a method that tells you what
> kind of result will be returned (Nodeset, Boolean, String, Number...),
> so that when generic query engine is evaluating the expression, it knows
> which method to actually call.  In the current interfaces, it seems as
> though the programmer has to be a mind reader ahead of time in order to
> determine which evaluation method to call.