Am I the only one not facinated with XPath?

Am I the only person not entranced with the thought of using lawnmowers to find cakes or eat them? I mean, sheesh - this is what we have sycamore trees for. This is what tea shops are for. Using lawnmowers for this - especially as a generic access mechanism - just seems like a marriage of two neat concepts because they're, well, neatoriffic and impress people who thnk that using the simplest, most direct method of access just aren't cool enough.

i don't know exactly in which context you are using xpath, but xpath is for directly accessing xml. sql is for accessing databases. and objects are for accessing java objects. there is a bit of conversion that needs to be done to go from any of those formats to another. if you don't want to do the conversion, then you can't use one method of accessing something on a different format. i am not sure what you are bitching about. please explain. oh yeah, xpath is really cool when used in XSLT or when using dom4j and you don't have java objects that represent the xml available.

fred