XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On May 4, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Luca Passani wrote:

> People, I need to do a bit of HTML parsing and manipulation. 
> Originally I was planning to use my old love, Regular Expressions, but 
> TagSoup may, in fact, be a better alternative.
> Also, I am not sure which path I should follow.
> XOM and XPath? NUX and XQuery?

You could do this in a variety of ways, with XOM or Nux or both. Either 
way should work fine.

> Here are some of the things I would like to do:
>
> <table>
>  <tr>
>     <td>A</td>
>     <td>B</td>
>  </tr>
> </table>
>
> should become:
>
> A
> B

XQueryUtil.xquery(doc, "string(/table)").get(0).getValue()

> some elements should be removed/detached (possibly depending on the 
> value of some attributes).
> Some attributes should be removed for all elements.

Find the attributes/elements to remove with a suitable XPath or XQuery, 
then do attr.detach() or similar.

Wolfgang.