[wtp-incubator-dev] The XPath plugin

[DOUG SATCHWELL <doug.satchwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This plugin adds an XPath view.

 

Quite correctly, it makes use of SSE to get the document to apply XPath to. However, it is forced to use parts of the SSE plugins that are marked as internal, and this is not the best situation.

 

As far as I know, there are two possible ways to get around this. One way is to ask the SSE plugin developers to make the required parts of the API 'public'. The other is to make out XPath plugin a plugin fragment onto the xml.ui plugin.

 

The former may be the correct way to do it, but the latter is certainly easier and quicker to do, though it means that any future changes will have to be carefully synchronised. Unless this XPath plugin is actually absorbed into the xml.ui plugin itself and maintained by that team of developers.

 

Does anyone have any preferences?

 

Thanks,

 

Doug