XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[getagrip <getagrip AT web.de>]

Not using XPath I can use Elements and add/remove children, but how to I 
filter the initial Sequence without XPath?

// I would like to filter by @id here, something like this:
val roles = doc.getRootElement.getChildElements("role[@id='boss']")

Sadly, this does not work

On 12/20/2010 08:12 PM, getagrip wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to figure out how to add children to a Node after having
> used the Node.query() method:
>
> <roles>
> <role id="employee">
> <user>bob</user>
> <user>sally</user>
> </role>
> <role id="boss"/>
> </roles>
>
> Here's the query:
>
> val roles = doc.query("/roles/role")
>
> val role = roles.get(0)
> val users = role.query("user")
> users.get(0).detach // bob is removed
>
> Now I would like to ADD a node/element to the <role id="boss"/> Node.
> Something like this:
>
> roles.get(1).attach(new Element("user").addChild("myself"))
>
> Appart from having a detach() method there is no attach()-method though :-(
>
> Also I would need to have a ParentNode to add a child but in my case as
> you can see the <role id="boss"/> node is empty.
>
> How can I add a child node here? Do I have to iterate the whole Document
> again using "Element"?
> But then I would have to explicitly parse every single node and write it
> back to the doc which would be too tedious.
>
> Thanks for hints, getagrip
>
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