I was looking at the concept of using XPath to generate skeleton DOM object.
This means that instead of doing something like (please consider the code
below more conceptual that actual api call)
...
document.appendChild( OrderElement )
document.getChild(..).appendChild( CustomerElement )
document.getChild(..).getChild(..).appendChild( NameElement )
document.getChild(..).getChild(..).getChild(...).appendChild(NameValueText)
...
the whole tree would be created by just one call
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node = XPathAPI.selectNode("/Order/Customer[1]/Name");
node.appendChild(NameValueText)
....
or simply as some body else pointed out on xalan-j-users group just
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documentcreator.generate(node, "/Order/Customer[1]/Name/text()='John Doe'");
....I am right now trying to evaluate whether this concept is a valid concept and if yes, i have a feeling will reduce Line of Code of XML generation for a lot of people. I did get some encoraging response on xalan-j-user group, but was also looking for some pointer along the line of how to go about it. I am looking on this group more interms of validating and detailing this concept. Shekhar Jha -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
