The limitations of regular EL prompted the Seam EL extensions in jboss-el. We'd like to further enhance the EL, but I'm not sure XPATH itself is the best approach. The selection notion might work ok for values, but we also need a method expression syntax. It would be great to borrow some things from xpath for EL. If there is interest in the community, we can definitely look at a more formal development structure for jboss-el. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4081055#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...