From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2009-02-20T15:45:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Search for an Presence of an XML element in a array

Naresh Ramaswamy wrote:

> 
> I feel the above solution is quite clumsy, Please suggest me a better 
> solution for it.

Use a pull parser and convert the XML into a more sensible data structure.

A pull parser also makes it easier to trigger events based on elements. 
Maybe you can skip the restructuring and directly work with the element 
stream.

I think my Dr. Dobbs article may still be relevant:

http://www.jamesbritt.com/2007/4/14/transforming-xml-the-rexml-pull-parser


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