[jdom-interest] fetching elements text

[John Cavacas]

I'm perhaps being lazy, but I've been using Jdom with great success for a
couple of weeks now. Where's this XPath interface? It could really use it in
a couple of places.

Thanks,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Hunter [mailto:jhunter at servlets.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 5:50 PM
> To: Scott Purcell
> Cc: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] fetching elements text
> 
> If convenience is what you desire, use the XPath interface.  Makes it
> trivial to pull out portions of a document.
> 
> For more doc information, see the docs page on the site.  There's no set
> of samples, but there's lots of articles and slides.  Also, you'll find
> some samples in the "samples" dir with the distribution.
> 
> -jh-
> 
> Scott Purcell wrote:
> >
> >  I have just created a JDOM object and it is in memory. I have the need
> to somehow pick out some data:
> >
> > EG: lets say that the below document is in memory:(This is just  piece
> of the data.)
> > And I need to pull out the psd/height, psd/width? How could I do that
> using JDOM?
> >
> > I used to use SAX, but want to use JDOM. How could I accomplish this?
> Also, are there any great example sites that I can get more info from?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Scott K Purcell
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <imageInfo>
> >   <psd width="281" height="281" copyright="" colorSpace="RGB">
> >     <optimizationSettings>
> >       <GIFFormat rolloverMasterPalette="false" autoReduce="false"
> interlaced="false" transparency="false" reductionAlgorithm="selective"
> webShiftPercent="0" ditherPercent="100" ditherAlgorithm="diffusion"
> noMatteColor="false" matteColor="#FFFFFF" lossy="0" numColors="256" />
> >     </optimizationSettings>
> >     <variableSubstitutionCommands>
> >       <setVariable data="data" trait="textcontent" category=""
> docRef="id('26')" varName="defaultTextVariable" />
> >     </variableSubstitutionCommands>
> >     <layer name="Percentage" type="text" top="99" left="190" right="243"
> bottom="148">
> >       <textFlow>
> >         <flow adobe-fractional-widths="false">
> > <p adobe-every-line-composer="false" adobe-burasagari="false" adobe-
> hanging-
> > more ........
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