I can't reproduce the exceptions you are getting.... I am using JDOM 2.0.5 with Jaxen 1.1.6.
I have created the following:
public static void main(String[] args) {
Element root = new Element ("root");
Element p = new Element("p");
p.addContent(" Return this time: Boo! ");
root.addContent(p);
XPathExpression<Text> timeXpath = XPathFactory.instance().compile(
"./p[contains(.,'time:')]/text()", Filters.textOnly());
XPathDiagnostic<Text> xpd = timeXpath.diagnose(root, true);
System.out.println(xpd);
System.out.println(timeXpath.evaluateFirst(root).getTextTrim());
}
and it produces:
[XPathDiagnostic: './p[contains(.,'time:')]/text()' evaluated (first) against org.jdom2.Element produced raw=1 discarded=0 returned=1]
Return this time: Boo!
I believe you may have out-of-date Jaxen class libraries?