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... re-sending ... went off list by accident ... On 6/3/13 7:12 AM, Andrew Welch wrote: > For example the dev is faced with the challenge of extracting the > <title> and product/@id values from some xml. > > They could: > > - use xquery/xpath > - use xom/jdom > - use sax/stax > > instead they use a tool to generate an xsd from the xml, then use a > binding tool to generate some classes, then use those generated > classes. > In many programming environments life is greatly simplified when there is a native object that represents a document: whose properties are drawn from the document and exposed directly via accessors like getID(), getTitle(), etc. While XPath provides a great tool for extracting property values from an XML dom like jdom,xom,tinytree,etc, I think there is still some utility in a generic framework for mapping XML to objects when working in such an environment. I haven't used JAXB and its ilk directly: in our practice, we ended up creating our own mapper that relies on annotations and introspection and XPath to do its work. I will say this has been a major undertaking, but it is a core part of our infrastructure, and people seem happy enough to let it do its job. From a user's perspective it ends up looking like: class Doc { ... @XPath("/doc/@id") public String getId() { return id; } @XPath("/doc/metadata/title") public String getTitle() { return title; } } for example, and then objects are created using something like: Mapper.asObject(JDOM, Class) I don't know if this sort of approach fits into your definition of things to avoid, but if it does, I wonder how you deal with the problem of creating "native" objects from XML documents? Do you just not do that and try to do all programming in XSLT/XQuery etc? -Mike [Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
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