XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

>     I was looking for a way to more quickly get to a particular message 
> to move it, or a particular mailbox to add or remove it.  However, if I 
> understand what I've read so far, while using a StreamingPathFilter 
> would get me where I want to go faster, I would want to then serialize 
> not just the change but the rest of the document as well.   So, I'd need 
> to build the DOM for the entire document anyways.


Right. If you need the entire document, then you need to have the entire 
document. Possibly you could build, serialize, and then throw away a 
piece at a time, but that's getting a little trickier.


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