XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Hallvard Trætteberg wrote:

> If you're only interested in img elements, you needn't build a full
> document and traverse it. Using Jaxen/XPath is definitely overkill for
> this case. XOM's node factory (don't remember the class name) supports
> creating only the nodes you're really interested in, to save space and
> time. Implement a custom NodeFactory (?) that only creates and Element
> if the name is img.
>  


Now why didn't I think of that? You wouldn't even have to build most of 
the document, and the parse would do the traversal for you. This should 
be much faster and more efficient than using XPath.

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Elliotte