[jdom-interest] Searching a JDOM document

[Paul Chapman]

However be warned - I have recently been doing exactly the same
thing and the Jaxen XPath approach is MUCH slower (30x in fact)

Of course the XPath approach gives you the prospect of a lot more
functionality with no code on your part. Depends how critical it
is for you.

Frank Sauer wrote:

> try Jaxen and an XPath expression like //elementName
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hushagen, Michael E. [mailto:MEHushagen at fedins.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:11 PM
> To: 'jdom-interest at jdom.org'
> Subject: [jdom-interest] Searching a JDOM document
> 
> 
> Here's a JDOM question for all the gurus out there:
> 
> I want to search a JDOM document and return the element that matches the
> name I pass in the parameters.  Here's what I have (it's recursive):
> 
> public Element findElement(Element current, String elementName)
> {
> 	if (current.getName() == elementName)
> 	{
> 		return current;
> 	}
> 	List children = current.getChildren();
> 	Iterator iterator = children.iterator();
> 	while (iterator.hasNext())
> 	{
> 		Element child = (Element) iterator.next();
> 		Element tempElement = findElement(child, elementName);
> 		if (tempElement != null)
> 			return tempElement;
> 	}
>              // Didn't find the element anywhere.
> 	return null;
> }
> 
> I call this method with the JDOM root element.  It works fine, but I was
> wondering if there is a more efficient or official way of doing this.
> 
> Thanks!
>  -Mike H.
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