From: sera@... (Francis Hwang)
Date: 2002-12-29T08:35:00+09:00
Subject: Re: xml processing

Matt,

I'd suggest the excellent REXML package at
http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/. It's really painless
to use.

Best,

Francis

Matthew Huggett <mhuggett@zam.att.ne.jp> wrote in message news:<3E0DC7C8.6030405@zam.att.ne.jp>...
> Hi there:
> 
> I'm new to programming and I need to process a basic xml file and pull 
> out a few attribute values.  So lets say that you have a very simple xml 
> document and you don't  care about the DOM, i.e., you don't care about 
> which node is a parent/child/family pet of which-- how do most of you 
> experienced programmers proceed?  I've been taking in lines from the 
> file and splitting them to get down to the info that I need, but it 
> seems to be an inefficient way of doing things.