XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Galt, Stuart A" <stuart.a.galt AT boeing.com>]

Hello,

I am new to the list and if this is an old subject please forgive 
me and please point me to an archive.

I am trying to create large XML files.  My hope was to create a DOM
(or XOM) or some tree like structure and "print it out at the end".
I now realize that this is not possible.  So, is it possible (or
even recommended) to serialize part of the node tree?

My document is of the form:

<document>
 <frontmatter>
 [ basic front matter stuff title, author, etc]
 </frontmatter>
 <pages>
  <page>
   <number>1</number>
   [lots of page info here could be up to 1000 nodes]
  </page>
  <page>
   <number>2</number>
   [lots of page info here could be up to 1000 nodes]
  </page>
...
  <page>
   <number>3000</number>
   ...
  </page>
 </pages>
</document>

I don't generate this data in a linear way so converting it to 
just dump to a stream would be hard.  But I would like be able to
tell the write method to only traverse the node tree until it gets
to a specified point.  Then I could do something like:

 write from the document element to the pages element;
 for each page {
   build xom for that page;
   write it out;
   release the page;
 }
 write out the "rest of the tree";

Am I crazy?  What is the normal way of doing stuff like this?



Thank you for your time.
Stuart Galt.

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Stuart Galt
SGML Resource Group
stuart.a.galt AT boeing.com
(206) 544-9925