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• Subject: Re: Re: fetching the text value of an element inside an element
• From: <santony@b...>
• Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 8:01:30 -0500

Our management is sceptical about freely downloadable open source products.
I had to fight a long battle just to introduce XSLT/xalan and ant.
I will mostly not succeed if I say "one more package".
But good to know dom4j supports xpath
Thanks
--sony


> 
> From: Fredrik Lindgren <fredrik.lindgren@c...>
> Date: 2004/01/18 Sun AM 04:53:33 EST
> To: santony@b...,  xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  fetching the text value of an element inside an element
> 
> 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@b...> 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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