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


santony
I wonder if there is a business case for setting up a company reselling 
free software to get around sceptical management. I mean, without changing 
or really supporting the actual software, just charging for it. ;-).

/Fredrik

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 8:01:30 -0500, <santony@b...> wrote:

> 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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Fredrik Lindgren

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