Re: [dom4j-user] XPath result from a DOM and the Rest of DOM

[Benjamin Kopic]

If I understand you correctly, the following will return <Patient> element: SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); Document document = reader.read( new File( "patient_records.xml" ) ); Element contactInfo = document.selectSingleNode( "//ContactInfo", "." ); Element patient = contactInfor.getParent(); Then you can use the Node API to traverse the <Patient> element returned. Also, if <Patient> is the root element, then you can do the following: SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); Document document = reader.read( new File( "patient_records.xml" ) ); Element patient = document.getRootElement(); Best regards Ben On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 23:52, Pae Choi wrote: Say we have an XML document as follows: <Patient>     <Age>39</Age>     <Gender>Female</Gender>     <ContactInfo>         <PhoneNumber>123-456-7890</PhoneNumber>         <EmailAddress>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</EmailAddress>     </ContactInfo> </Patient> And we use the XPath to only get the <ContactInfo>, e.g., "//ContactInfo" which should get the result as follows;     <ContactInfo>         <PhoneNumber>123-456-7890</PhoneNumber>         <EmailAddress>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</EmailAddress>     </ContactInfo> My question is: [Q] Is there way to get the rest of XML document in a simple       way. The rest of XML document should be as follows; <Patient>     <Age>39</Age>     <Gender>Female</Gender> </Patient> Any comments? Thank you. Regards, Pae -- benjamin kopic m: +44 (0)780 154 7643 t: +44 (0)20 7794 3090 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.panContext.com/