A jOOX First-Time Experience Article

Here’s some nice first-time user experience about jOOX, my lesser-known product: http://www.kubrynski.com/2013/03/as-developer-i-want-to-use-xml.html As a reminder, here’s what jOOX is all about:
jOOX stands for Java Object Oriented XML. It is a simple wrapper for the org.w3c.dom package, to allow for fluent XML document creation and manipulation where DOM is required but too verbose. jOOX only wraps the underlying document and can be used to enhance DOM, not as an alternative.
Unlike other, similar tools that mimick jQuery (e.g. jsoup, jerry, gwtquery), jOOX really aims to leverage standard w3c DOM usage, which isn’t such a bad thing after all, with its performant, standard Xerces implementation. Some simple example code:

// Find the order at index 4 and 
// add an element "paid"
$(document).find("orders")
           .children().eq(4)
           .append("<paid>true</paid>");

// Find those orders that are paid 
// and flag them as "settled"
$(document).find("orders")
           .children().find("paid")
           .after("<settled>true</settled>");

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