XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Peter Ertl <pertl AT gmx.org>]

XOM is really nice :-)

However, on Java 5 it's really annoying that Element doesn't implement  
java.lang.Iterable

So code would not look like this:

      final Builder parser = new Builder();
      final Document doc = parser.build("http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise-atom.xml 
");
      final Elements entries =  
doc.getRootElement().getChildElements("entry");

      for(int i=0; i < entries.size(); i++)
      {
        final Element entry = entries.get(i);

        // process rss entry
      }


But like that:

      final Builder parser = new Builder();
      final Document doc = parser.build("http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise-atom.xml 
");

      for(Element entry :  
doc.getRootElement().getChildElements("entry"))
      {
        // process rss entry
      }

That's two lines less, one variable saved and *imho* better  
readability...

Also this is quite a common usecase

Implementation in Element should be a no-brainer


So would be great to see this in XOM :-)


Best Regards
Peter