Here are two ways that I know of: 1. Use XPath. The Apache XPath API is a part of the Xalan distribution 2. The DOM Level2 traversal API ie org.w3c.dom.traversal. Here you implement a NodeFilter which you can use in conjunction with a TreeWalker.
(1) above is the simplest, (2) is more low level and hence much faster. -Nikhil On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Wayne Johnson wrote: > I have an XML structure where a specific element is referenced at two levels > of the same tree: > > <RuleTemplate> > <RuleDefinition/> > <ConcreteRule> > <RuleDefinition/> > </ConcreteRule> > </RuleTemplate> > > I'd like to search for all the RuleDefinitions that are children of > RuleTemplate, but not the one in ConcreteRule. > > The XML maps to the object structures so changing things is not an option. > > Up till now I was using getElementsByTagNamegetElementsByTagName, but > recently realized it wasn't doing what I thought. > > I would have suspected that DOM would have another way to do this, but > haven't found any, short of doing it by hand. Since my interface specifies a > NodeList, which I haven't figured out how to edit, I'm kind of stuck. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > > > > > --- > Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those > 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," > Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, > (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
