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XPath support in Java XML API?

843834Jun 5 2002 — edited Jun 7 2002
Hello,

I have an application in which I am loading an xml document and then parsing through the DOM to get the elements and values that I need from the document. I had done this previously in other environments where I could use XPath statements to quickly parse to a specific node that I am searching for. However, I am not noticing any support for XPath in the latest version of the Java XML API. Is there really no support for this or have I yet to find it?

Thanks.

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843834
To answer my own question, I found references in other discussions to the Xalan project (http://xml.apache.org) which supplies me with an API to perform XPath queries against a loaded DOM.

Thanks.
843834
I have been using the Apaxhe XPathAPI class in my own code for a while and it is an excellent way of querying a loaded XML DOM. My only concern is that requires that you use 'non-standard' API. I would like to see this in the standard java XML API.
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