Life by the park

Встроенный Xalan (код после оптимизации по скорости с прекомпиленными выражениями) :

minusOneExpression = new XPath("/game/principal/@noBid='true'", null, null, XPath.SELECT);
XObject containsLateBid = minusOneExpression.execute(new XPathContext(), doc.getFirstChild(), null);
containsLateBid.bool()

JDom:

noBidExpression = XPath.newInstance("/game/principal/@noBid='true'");
Boolean result = (Boolean) noBidExpression.selectSingleNode(doc);
result.booleanValue()

Следует ли говорить, что в 1.5 всё ещё более по третьему?

Sun по этому поводу пишет следующее:

“…In J2SE 1.4, the fact that JAXP was built into the Java platform was a mixed blessing. On the one hand, an application could rely on that fact that it was there. On the other, most applications needed features and bug fixes that were available in later versions. But adding new libarires had no effect, because internal classes always take precedence over the classpath…”