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Re: fetching the text value of an element inside an element

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• Subject: Re: fetching the text value of an element inside an element
• From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:07:19 -0500
• In-reply-to: <20040118053114.KLTW18522.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@m...>
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On Jan 18, 2004, at 12:31 AM, <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 )

A DOM or DOM-like API that supports XPath seems your best bet.  How 
about Xerces?  It supports DOM Level 3, doesn't it?  You  use Xerces if 
you use Xalan, so your management shouldn't have to approve Yet Another 
package, right?

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