JDOM vs Xerces2

[Michael]

hello,
I'm a java programmer, and my program will require to parse XML
documents and extract data from it, then built a new XML document.
Should JDOM or Xerces be the best for me?

Please help.

Thank you very much,
Michael

 

[next_hop]

Hi,
I am not sure that is the question you mean to ask. JDOM is a representation
of the Dom structure, while it uses a parser (I think Xerces) to read in the
document. If you are working in Java it seems to be a lot easier to use it.
There is little casting and you have collections returned, it just takes a
lot of the grunt work out of coding and lets you get down to the task at
hand.
What is happening to JDOM at this time is kinda of a question I have. The
main developer is no longer with it and I do not know if it will be picked
and included in the Java general release anytime soon, or ever.
So if you just want to read in an Xml text/stream and use JDom to create a
new document Jdom would be my choice.

 

[Magnus Henriksson]

hello,
I'm a java programmer, and my program will require to parse XML
documents and extract data from it, then built a new XML document.
Should JDOM or Xerces be the best for me?

For a discussion about the merits of different XML APIs for Java, see the
book 'Processing XML with Java' by Elliotte Rusty Harold. The book is
available online at http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/xmljava/.


// Magnus

 

[Dale King]

Hello, Magnus Henriksson!

For a discussion about the merits of different XML APIs for Java, see the
book 'Processing XML with Java' by Elliotte Rusty Harold. The book is
available online at http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/xmljava/.

You might also want to look at XOM which is designed by Elliotte
as an improvement over JDOM and is much cleaner than JDOM.