Stax has an "XPath like"?

Maybe you already now Stax, the performant (if you say how to param your parser ) xml parser.
Unfortunately (and logically int a streaming approch) it doesn't implement the XPath processor. And I need to ask to the user the complete access tree to a element (for exemple "/myroot/mylist/myelementwanted"). Do you know a xpath like tool based on Stax? Or an easily changeable factory to define an EventFilter stax with the dynamic path?
Thanks for help me!

I think that StAX and XPath are not technologies very close. XPath needs to read completely the stream to run.

If you need only few XPath expressions, perhaps can you use StAX filters.

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I think that the EIP compnent would be "quick-run oriented" (so SAX through JAXP or StaX, to be quick for a simple sequential treatment) and not "loud-treatment oriented" (so JDOM today, to do complex search an a xml tree). The problem is that all patterns are user fronted with XPath Expression. I need to found an easy method, understandable and standard for the newbie, such as XPath, to switch from JDOM to StAX...

Your first need is to have "an easy method, understandable and standard for the newbie", and I think that XPath is the right one.

Your performance need through StAX is a second need.

I think that you will start to implement your XPath need. As XPath needs a full representation of the XML tree in memory, StAX can be used with XMLBeans to create this tree. Saxon is a good XPath engine, moreover it is compliant with XPath 2.0.

Example (putting Saxon librairies in the classpath) :

Code:

final XMLStreamReader xsr = xifThreadLocal.get().createXMLStreamReader(...); final XmlObject xmlRequest = XmlObject.Factory.parse(xsr); final XmlObject[] values = xmlRequest.selectPath("xpath_expression");

I think the problem of Frederic is more a sax event problem,
Fred, I think you want to catch all elements of your xml source that respect a rule, such as “I want all elements in root/list/element” for example
And you don’t want to make some xpath tests
Am I right ?

Hi. You can use Apache Axiom. It is an API that uses the StAX parser. Axiom supports XPATH.

I would recommend VTD-XML as a way to achieve better perforamnce than StAX, VTD-XML is faster (according to the spec) and natively supports XPath 1.0 (full set)

http://vtd-xml.sf.net

Is it lgpl?