The somewhat functional way of thinking involved with jOOX's XML manipulation cries for an additional API enhancement simply supporting XSLT. XSL transformation has become quite a standard way of transforming large amounts of XML into other structures, where normal DOM manipulation (or jOOX manipulation) becomes too tedious. Let's have a look at how things are … Continue reading jOOX and XSLT. An XML love story, continued
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CSS selectors in Java
CSS selectors are a nice and intuitive alternative to XPath for DOM navigation. While XPath is more complete and has more functionality, CSS selectors were tailored for HTML DOM, where the document content is usually less structured than in XML. Here are some examples of CSS selector and equivalent XPath expressions: CSS: document > library > books > … Continue reading CSS selectors in Java