XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[jason mazzotta <jazzdman AT comcast.net>]

I guess I am confused.  I assume the examples that are listed here :

http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM/samples.xhtml#d0e598

are the ones in xom-samples.jar.  I've read through most of them and by 
and large they seem to deal with an element without considering the 
relationship to its parent.  The way I imagine things, you'd build a 
HashMap for the relationship of the name of an element to the name of 
its parent, from root to leaf, and then check that for each element in 
finishMakingElement to decide whether it should be included.  Things 
would get more complex in my case, because the leaves I would want to 
include would actually have to check their great-great-grandparents to 
see if they should be included.

Jason


On Mar 25, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
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