You could try Obyx ( httpd://www.obyx.org ), which does a lot of that stuff using your own scripts, so you don't need to write loads of code. Regardless, once you have tasted the fruit of XPath 2 ( Look at XQIlla for the XPath 2 implementation over Xercesc) you will never go anywhere else.
Just my 2¢ (and a shameless plug!)
B.
On 27 Jul 2011, at 16:19, Ramon F Herrera wrote:
>
> (newbie alert)
>
> I found two (DOM) tutorial-type programs to retrieve values and I am trying
> to decide which one I will build upon.
>
> (For this explanation, I will use the filesystem analogy.)
>
> One of them is simpler, being based on XPath:
>
> cat /some/dir/inside/another/item.txt
>
> The other program goes like this:
>
> cd some
> cd dir
> cd inside
> cd another
> cat item.txt
>
> (the above are actually nested loops)
>
> I now realize that the two approaches are even more useful, if combined into
> a hybrid approach:
>
> cd /some/dir/inside/another
> dir
> cat item.txt
> cat other.txt
>
> Is there such express way to jump directly to the desired depth where your
> target item resides?
>
> TIA,
>
> -RFH
>
>
>
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