What best meets my requirements in creating and modifying XML? Requirements: checking whether a node exists through the entire path from the root <root> <a> <b> </b> </a> <root> -> //root/a/b creating XML nodes with easy access to them, like expressions in XPath . What can be recommend?

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How to handle XML in Java with a simple access to the nodes?

What best meets my requirements in creating and modifying XML?

Requirements:

checking whether a node exists through the entire path from the root
```
<root>
   <a>
      <b>
      </b>
   </a>
<root>
```
-> //root/a/b
creating XML nodes with easy access to them, like expressions in XPath.

What can be recommend?

Upvotes: 1

Answers (3)

Yaneeve

Reputation: 4779

Perhaps this is overkill for you but XmlBeans from Apache is pretty cool and JAXB with Binders (which is perhaps a bit more modern) are both great options for modelling strictly defined XML (those with XSD Schema, DTD) in a Java friendly manner as simple beans. With a little extra coding, both can use XPath to reference elements within the XML data.

Upvotes: 0

matsev

Reputation: 33749

If you can use Groovy, XmlSlurper plays nicely with Java, e.g. reading and updating. Groovy has its own expression language GPath, which has similar purpose as the more well-known XPath.

Curious for more? Visit Groovy XML processing.

Upvotes: 0

Raihan

Reputation: 10395

You can use Java XPath API in javax.xml.xpath package. This is a tutorial

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-javaxpathapi/index.html

And to create XML nodes using XPath check this out

Upvotes: 2

How to handle XML in Java with a simple access to the nodes?

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