[jdom-interest] Which is the faster way ?

[Abhishek Srivastava]

Hello All,

Lets say that I have the following XML Structure

<RECORDS>
	<ID> 1 </ID>
	<NAME> ABHSIHEK </NAME>
	<LOCATION> BANGALORE </LOCATION>
</RECORDS>

Let's say that I want to extract tne values of the document.

One way can be

Element root = doc.getRootElement();
String id = root.getChild("ID").getText();
String name = root.getChild("NAME").getText();
String loc = root.getChild("LOCATION").getText();


Other way can be

List list = doc.getRootElement().getChildren();
String id = (String)list.get(0);
String name = (String) list.get(1);
String loc = (String) list.get(2);

Which approach will be faster ?

Should I always try to travrse a JDOM Tree using the getChild APIs Or I
should first extract things to a Java Collection Object and then use it for
data extraction. Or is it that both are the same and it doesn't matter which
one i use ?

regards,
Abhishek.

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