The Java XPath API: Querying XML from Java programs

"XPath expressions are much easier to write than detailed Document Object Model (DOM) navigation code. When you need to extract information from an XML document, the quickest and simplest way is to embed an XPath expression inside your Java™ program. Java 5 introduces the javax.xml.xpath package, an XML object-model independent library for querying documents with XPath." says Elliotte Rusty Harold (elharo@metalab.unc.edu), Adjunct Professor, Polytechnic University

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