An XML library for Java

This is a simple library for parsing and outputing XML strings. It also provides a simple XPath 1.0 processor.

Build instructions

Download the source code or clone the repository. If you have Ant, you can compile by simply typing:

$ ant

at the command prompt. This will create the xml-lif.jar library, which you can then include in your projects.

Usage

To parse a string

String my_string = "some XML...":
try {
  XmlElement elem = XmlElement.parse(my_string);
} catch (XmlParseException e) {
  // Do something
}

To create an XML structure

XmlElement my_element = new XmlElement("foo");
XmlElement inside = new XmlElement("bar");
inside.addChild(new TextElement("Hello"));
my_element.addChild(inside);

To query an object using an XPath expression

XPathExpression exp = XPathExpression.parse("foo/bar/text()");
try {
  Collection<XmlElement> result = XP.get(my_map, "b[0]");
} catch (XPathParseException e) {
  // Do something
}

With the element my_element created above, this would return the TextElement with value "Hello".