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


jdom element value
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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Fredrik Lindgren

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