At 3:02 PM -0700 6/29/04, Landon Blake wrote:
I would like to work with an XML API that allows me to search an XML
document for elements according to the name of the element, attribute
of the element, or the value of a child element. Once a matching
element was found it would be written to another XML file or
converted to a Java object for use by my program. I do not want to
have to read the entire document into memory, like you are required
to with JDOM. (The idea is to read/parse a large XML document, and
only pull out what you need.) Can anyone reccomend an XML API that
would meet these needs, or should I be trying to implement this on my
own by adding a layer on top of SAX itself? (I program in Java.)
Probably the easiest way to do this given the restriction not to load
the entire document into memory is is by subclassing the NodeFactory
class in XOM. http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM/ Without the memory
restriction I'd be looking at XPath.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
