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The dom4j API [http://dom4j.org/] supports xpath and could be an
alternative. Not knowing the reasons for not using jdom, I wouldn't know
if they apply to dom4j as well.
Regards
Fredrik Lindgren
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 0:31:14 -0500, <santony@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> We have this situation wherin I should programatically ( Java ) fetch
> the text value of an element that is inside another element.
> Essentially this is the simple value of the xpath expression
> outer_element/inner_element
> 1. What is the best XML technology to use in this situation. DOM based
> parsing and iterating the outer level of elements till I find the inner
> one, and then fetching its value ? ( We are not considering jdom due to
> some other reasons )
>
> 2. Is using an XSLT processor like xalan an overkill since we do not do
> any transformation ? Can we get xpath with anything other than a full
> fledged XSLT processor.
>
> 3. Comparing DOM based iteration with an XSLT which is expected to be
> faster ( I read DOM is used inside XSLT processors )
>
> Thanks for reading
>
> --sony
>
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