Posted by yamsellem in the early morning: March 17th, 2011
As an ubiquitous exchange format, XML is well implemented in java. But those implementations hide how they perform the data binding from a XML structure to an object graph. It leaves us helpless in front of an application giving XML as a plain old string. Because low level API (DOM, XPath) — focused on document structure — are tedious, major JAX-RS implementation (Jersey, CXF) have chosen the same high level API — focused on data —: JAXB. Let’s do the same.
Posted by Age Mooij in the late evening: July 25th, 2009
Earlier this week I ran into a missing feature in the Scala xml library and I ended up adding this feature myself, which turned out to be pretty simple.
I was trying to extract the text contents of an element in a piece of XML using the handy \ and \\ methods on scala.xml.NodeSeq. These methods allow you to extract sub-elements from an XML node in a way very similar to XPath, something like this:
val xml = <a><b><c>text</c></b></a> val c1 = xml \ "b" \ "c" val c2 = xml \\ "c" val text = c2.text
The problem I ran into occurred when I tried to use these methods to extract an element when one of its attributes had a certain value.