[jdom-interest] Should I convert to/from org.jdom.Document

[bob mcwhirter]

It may be overkill, but Jaxen (http://jaxen.org/) has a Navigator
interface, that while somewhat XML-specific, really could be
targetted against anything.

Side-effect would be if you had a DatabaseNavigator, you could
evaluate XPaths against your DB...

	-bob

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Naresh Bhatia wrote:

> That's definately an intresting approach - keeps the JDOM model intact and
> no translation involved. Thank Anthony.
>  
> Any other thoughts from the group?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Eden [mailto:aeden at signaturedomains.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 8:08 AM
> To: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: RE: [jdom-interest] Should I convert to/from org.jdom.Document
> 
> 
> I primarily use JDOM for loading configuration data.  To that end I have a
> Configuration interface and then one of the concrete implementations wraps a
> JDOM document.  The interface includes methods like getChildren(),
> getChildValue(), getValue(), etc.  I can then use different implementations
> (such as pull data from a database) very easily.
>  
> Sincerely,
> Anthony Eden
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org [mailto:jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org] On
> Behalf Of Naresh Bhatia
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 4:17 PM
> To: 'jdom-interest at jdom.org'
> Subject: [jdom-interest] Should I convert to/from org.jdom.Document
> 
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I have a quick design question for the group. When using an XML parser such
> as JDOM, is it better for the application to work directly with the document
> tree (such as org.jdom.Document) or should it use an application specific
> model and convert to/from the document tree? What are the pros/cons of the
> two approaches, where does one make sense over the other?
> 
> Naresh Bhatia 
> 
>