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Re: XPath expression parser?

• From: Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@s...>
• To: James Carr <james.r.carr@g...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:31:06 +0100

James Carr wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Is there a good, easy to use xpath expression parser for java lying
> around? I mean, not one that executes xpath queries on a dom document,
> but pme that returns an object structure opf the xpath expression so I
> could traverse it and define my own actions to take.

Hi,

I think Jaxen [1] is good enough for that purpose ; I used it in Active 
Tags [2] and RefleX [3] for browsing various objects, such as a file 
system :
$dir//*[@io:is-file][@io:extension='xml']
(guess what you should get)

[1] http://jaxen.org/
[2] http://disc.inria.fr/perso/philippe.poulard/xml/active-tags/
[3] http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/

-- 
Cordialement,

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    • From: "James Carr" <james.r.carr@g...>