Index: jboss-sunxacml/src/main/java/org/jboss/security/xacml/sunxacml/finder/impl/SelectorModule.java
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--- jboss-sunxacml/src/main/java/org/jboss/security/xacml/sunxacml/finder/impl/SelectorModule.java	(revision 100692)
+++ jboss-sunxacml/src/main/java/org/jboss/security/xacml/sunxacml/finder/impl/SelectorModule.java	(working copy)
@@ -45,7 +45,10 @@
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 
-import org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
+
 import org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.EvaluationCtx;
 import org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.ParsingException;
 import org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.PolicyMetaData;
@@ -190,8 +193,8 @@
         // now do the query, pre-pending the root path to the context path
         NodeList matches = null;
         try {
-            // NOTE: see comments in XALAN docs about why this is slow
-            matches = XPathAPI.selectNodeList(root, rootPath + path, nsNode);
+            XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
+            matches = (NodeList)xpath.evaluate(rootPath + path, root, XPathConstants.NODESET);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             // in the case of any exception, we need to return an error
             return createProcessingError("error in XPath: " + e.getMessage());