begin quoting Steven E. Harris as of Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:31:02AM -0700: > Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's not the programmatic side of things that's annoying (well, it is, > > but that's because XML parsing libraries are not nice in C, C++, Java, > > and so forth -- and picking a language based on XML support seems > > backwards) > > Have you tried processing XML in Java lately? There are several options > that reduce the parsing down to just a few lines of code, especially if > you're interested in using XPath or a data binding tool like JAXB.
The last time I used XML and Java was 1.4.2 (in J2EE-land even), and JAXB wasn't really appropriate -- I was extracting data from XML messages, and the message format was changing weekly, so I just had a key/value table, with the values being XPath strings. When they'd change the format on me, the code would dump the entire message to stderr, and I could then go back and fix the XPath strings to work with the "new" format. So, no, not lately. But I will be soon. :) I'm about to be faced with sucking in a lot of XML data, so JAXB is heading the list of stuff to spin up on, to see how or if it's changed since I last used it/looked at it. Here's to hoping it's a lot better now. -- Who knows, maybe XML will now be so easy I'll be a convert. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
