XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Mar 25, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> >     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.

I'm not sure I fully understand the use case, but the update part of it 
seems to be trickier because XOM has no streaming output equivalent to 
the NodeFactory that would allow to individually write one subtree at a 
time (rather than write entire documents). You could write a workaround 
with a bit of string printing or use some SAX like library...

Wolfgang.