XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

> Hi,
> I'm using an xmi document as input and would like to know if there is anyway
> to resolve idref(s) in the document. The problem is that I'm looking for
> specific tags on elements and these tags are referenced via idref's, so in
> order to determine whether a particular element has been tagged with a tag
> that I'm interested in I first need to resolve the reference and then check
> the tag it refers to.
> I have done this using a map that maps ids to their elements (and using this
> to do a look up), but wonder if there is another way using XOM.


No. XOM will tell you which attributes are IDs and which are IDREFs, 
but beyond that you're on your own.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA