XML search

[ramkumars]

Hi,

I am new to XML and am facing the following problem.

I have a huge XML file. I want to search for a text attribute of an element in the file and then return the element(including any parent and/or child element) to the Java application. How can i achieve this?

I am using Xerces1.4 parser.

Thanks in advance for any help..

Regards,
SRK

 

[JJR]

Take a look at XPath, the query language for XML. You can find some examples here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/xpath_syntax2_3prn.asp

Xpath is not a product of MS. It is a standard submitted at the W3c. The syntax used in the above examples should also work in Xerces or any other xml parser.

Jordi Reineman