Help trying to convert old Apache XPath methods to J2SE5 XPath

Previously using Apache XPath before it was part of J2SE I loaded the xml file into a DOM Document, and then had a method that could lookup by xpath

DocumentBuildFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

dbf.setValidating(false);

DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

Document d = db.parse(new File("testfile.xml");

......

node = XPathAPI.selectSingleNode(d.getDocumentElement(),xpath);

return node;

but in the J2SE, XPath only seems to work with (SAX) Input Source, I don't see why It can't be run against a DOM Document.

XPathFactory xpf = XPathFactory.newInstance();

XPath path = xpf.newXPath();

....

XPathExpression xPathExpression = path.compile(xpath);

return xPathExpression.evaluate(is);

Could anybody clarify this for me, thanks Paul

[1015 byte] By [paultaylora] at [2007-11-26 16:06:51]