XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

jason mazzotta wrote:
> Hi,
>       I'm relatively new to using XML, and I'm working on a project that 
> I think ultimately is a big lesson is what NOT to use XML for.  That 
> said, I've found XOM and I'm trying to understand if there are any 
> performance advantages in using it for what I want to do.  From reading 
> the JavaDoc for the NodeFactory and the examples, it can be used to help 
> find particular  nodes in an XML tree.  I'd be interested in trying to 
> prune my XML document down to a particular branch with its leaves 
> intact.  Can I do that with a NodeFactory, or  would that end up being 
> so complex that I'd be better off simply taking the performance hit of 
> constructing the DOM for the entire document?

This is *exactly* what NodeFactory is designed to do. It should be 
fairly simple to do this. There are examples of this in the 
nu.xom.samples package. If you get confused, holler.



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