XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Laurent Bihanic <laurent.bihanic AT atosorigin.com>]

luca passani wrote:
> Assuming I have a bit of  XML like the following, what's the best (most 
> efficient) way to retrieve the list of capability names and stick them into an ArrayList?
>
> I already have:
>
> Element genericElement = (Element)deviceElementsList.get("generic");
>
> I can only think of nested loops, but maybe there is some XOM shorthand 
> notation?
> What about XPATH?

Sure, you can use XPath with an expression such as "//capability" which 
retrieves all capability nodes at any level in the document.

As XOM does not yet integrate XPath, you can use the adapter for the Jaxen 
XPath engine I posted on the mailing list earlier.

Laurent