XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Luca Passani scripsit:

> I am using XOM's NodeFactory to parse raw HTML. My problem is that I am 
> using the body closing tag
> as the cue point to start collecting statistics about a page. As you can 
> imagine, the existence of multiple body tags
> totally screws up my strategy. Is there any way I can look-ahead and see 
> if there are any body tags coming down the pipeline?

XSLT is your friend; so is the full use of the XOM model.  You are trying
to strain the limits of a streaming API beyond what's reasonable.

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