However:
- Whilst XPaths work quite well for object graphs, which are inherently nested, they are bad for targets like struts-config.xml which are not nested - and nesting them involves recombining lots of different potential combinations
- Whilst the approach is cute, it is not true: the XML returned by an Inspector may bear no relation to what that Inspector inspects: in the case of struts-config.xml, the format may be quite different, and in the case of object graphs there is no XML
- We actually don't want the expressiveness of XPaths. We want person/current, but we don't want WidgetBuiders being able to ask for, say, starts-with( @type, 'org.example' )
- We would have to ship JXPath (no biggie)
Instead, I'm going to try simply using an array of names (eg. 'person', 'current'). This is easier all round to understand, and less prone to abuse.
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