[jdom-interest] Building DOM

[Alex Rosen]

You probably want to build a JDOM tree, instead of a DOM tree. Use
SAXBuilder.build(). [BTW, note how confusing the name SAXBuilder is in this
context. Why should the user have to hear the word SAX here?]


Jason, how about something like this for the FAQ, right after "What is
JDOM":

What is JDOM not?

- JDOM is not a wrapper for DOM, or another version of DOM. JDOM is a
"document object model" for XML files, as is the DOM defined in org.w3.dom.
JDOM serves the same purpose as DOM, but is easier to use.

- JDOM is not an XML parser, like Xerces or Crimson. Instead, it works with
an XML parser. JDOM's SAXBuilder class will use an XML parser to build a
JDOM tree. This is just like how Xerces or Crimson can use their parsers to
build a DOM tree, but instead of getting back a DOM tree, you get a JDOM
tree instead.

Alex


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org
> [mailto:jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org]On Behalf Of Joern Muehlencord
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:15 AM
> To: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: [jdom-interest] Building DOM
>
>
> Hi out there,
>
> I am quite new to JDOM (since yesterday...) - so here is a
> question from
> a beginner. What is the correct way to build up a dom? In the
> samplefile
> (DOMBuilderDemo) a depricated api is used (b.build (...)).
>
> Thanx!
>
> PS: Great stuff - I have tried to use xerces, but I did not succeed.
> With JDOM it is nearly finished know....
>
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> installed Linux.
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