[dom4j-user] XPath performance penalty

I was just doing some performance testing and discovered that changing all my xpath expressions like this: String str = document.valueOf("/article/title"); to Element root = document.getRootElement(); String str = root.elementText("title"); Created a huge performance speedup. This makes sense I g

Re: [dom4j-user] Entity substitution

On Jan 29, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Edwin Dankert wrote: I'm not sure if I understand fully what you're trying to do? Could you give an example of an input and output document and maybe some code? Sure, example document: This is my test document This is some content with an entity here: &myent; The

[dom4j-user] Entity substitution

Does anyone have a good solution to doing entity substitution? I'm attempting to substitute some entities with strings and some with other entities (mostly to create an HTML or plain text representation). I'm already using XSLT to transform to HTML/text but it doesn't seem to have support for t

Re: [dom4j-user] XSLT at the Node Level

On Jan 26, 2005, at 5:45 AM, Edwin Dankert wrote: It seems to be relatively easy to change the code but I am not sure what the full impact would be (SAXSource expects a document) ... probably as Paul suggested sub-classing DocumentSource would be the best solution? I'm going to attempt to add suppo

[dom4j-user] XSLT at the Node Level

I've been playing around with XSLT with dom4j, if I create a org.dom4j.io.DocumentSource with a Node the entire Document gets passed the transformer. I would like to be able to apply XSLT to individual Nodes, not the entire Document so I would like / in the XSLT transformer to be the root of th