DOM4J Introduction and code example

DOM4J is an open source XML parsing package produced by dom4j.org. DOM4J is an easy-to-use, open Source Library for Xml,xpath and XSLT. It is applied to the Java platform, with a Java collection framework and full support for Dom,sax and JAXP.

DOM4J Download jar Package: Http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dom4j/dom4j-1.6.1.jar

Jaxen (Support for XPath): Http://dist.codehaus.org/jaxen/distributions/jaxen-1.1.1.zip

1.DOM4J Main interface

The DOM4J main interface is defined in the ORG.DOM4J package.

-node defines polymorphic behavior for all XML nodes in the dom4j;

-branch defines a public behavior for nodes that can contain child nodes such as XML elements (element) and documents (docuemnts);

|-element defines XML elements;

|-document defines the XML document;

-documenttype defines the XML DOCTYPE declaration;

-entity defines XML entity;

-attribute defines the attributes of XML;

-processinginstruction defines XML processing instructions;

-characterdata is an identification excuse for identifying character-based nodes. such as Cdata,comment, Text;

|-CDATA Defines an XML CDATA region;

|-text defines an XML text node;

|-Comment defines the behavior of XML annotations;