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XPath and JAXB

From: James Sheridan <james.sheridan_at_fraysen.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:13:05 +0000

Hi,

I am new to JAXB and am finding it extremely useful. However I have a
problem. While in my code I don't want to have to parse or otherwise be
aware of the underlying XML (this is why I'm using JAXB) I do have to
find some elements using XPath expressions. From what I can see from
code generated by JAXB there is no XPath navigation API included. I
realise I could probably go the DOM+XPathAPI route but due to resource
constraints (very large number of documents to manage) this approach
(especially the DOM bit) is too heavyweight.
My ideal would be JAXB to roll those nice Java classes and hide the XML
and a related JAXB XPath API (I suppose this could use reflection to
navigate the JAXB-generated classes, though there may be better ways).
Anyway, does anyone know if JAXB supports or is planning to support an
XPath API ?

Many thanks in advance,
    James