I am using jdom in my projects these days. I like it.
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From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
To: <unrev-II@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [unrev-II] X-Path and more
> Jack Park wrote:
> >
> > an XML document. werken.xpath is built upon JDOM (www.jdom.org)
> >
> Well, its got my interest. Having developed a class that ecapsulates
> an XML file, I can tell you that JDom got it right. Programming a
> DOM is just butt-ugly -- its the lack of content/structure distinction,
> times 10.
>
> JDom creates an abstraction called "element". You can then get the
> text of the element, or get its attributes, or whatever. In a DOM,
> on the other hand, everything is mixed together. You can never go
> looking for one thing without being prepared to encounter and
> ignore every other possibility.
>
> So if werken.xpath is built on JDom, that tells me that
> a. They were intelligent enough to pick the right basis
> b. They were probably able to focus on the higher-order
> issues, as a result, instead of spending their time
> working out low-level bugs that were aided and abetted
> by the DOM architecture.
>
>
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