Re: [dom4j-user] I just want a DOMDocument

[John Fletcher]

Thanks James,   I've kind of got a better grasp of what I want to do with the DOMDocument (i'm used to that MSXML thing).  I've gotten as far as returning a List from a document.selectNodes("my_xpath").  I need to get at the attributes for each Node in the list.  I would have thought I could just do a ((Node) list.get(0)).getAttributes(), but the getAttributes method is only defined in the DOMDocument object.  I can't obviously cast my list.get() to a DOMDocument, but I'd like a NamedNodeMap containing the attributes of my selected node.   I'm running this code in a JSP page, using Tomcat 3.2.3.   For those interested, here's the code I'm using (abridged):   <%@ page import ... (all required libraries and classes)%> <% SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); reader.setDocumentFactory(new DOMDocumentFactory()); Document document = reader.read("url_path_to_my_xml");   List layerNodes = document.selectNodes("//LAYER"); %>   Now how do I get the attributes for each node in the list?   Thanks in advance.   John Fletcher Latitude Geographics Group Ltd. 257 Market Square, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8W 3C6 Tel: (250) 381.8130   Fax: (250) 381.8132 www.latitudegeo.com   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: James Strachan To: John Fletcher ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] I just want a DOMDocument You can try use the DOMWriter which will take any dom4j document and create a W3C DOM implementation, using any JAXP W3C DOM provider. There's also DOMDocumentFactory that you can use and set on the SAXReader via the setDocumentFactory() method and everything will just work.   James ----- Original Message ----- From: John Fletcher To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:27 PM Subject: [dom4j-user] I just want a DOMDocument This is probably a painfully simple question, but bear with me. :)   I'm starting to use dom4j, and I want to parse an xml file, returning a org.dom4j.dom.DOMDocument object.  >From the javadocs and the quickstart guide, I can easily see how to return a org.dom4j.Document object, but I need the functionality of the DOMDocument.  I know that the DOMDocument implements the Document interface - can I just cast the returned Document to a DOMDocument?  Is it already returning a DOMDocument and I just don't know?  I feel pretty stupid here, 'cause I couldn't find the answer in the old posts either.   Thanks in advance.   John Fletcher