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Posted in Groovy: XML without the bloat
Posted Friday 14th December 2007 20:16 GMT
Charlie Clark

ElementTree

Why would anyone want to do the essentially procedural processing of XML in Java? BTW. Java is quite a bit older than XML but you're right - XML is hell, especially when numpties abuse it for persistence. cf. "If you thought SQL was bad wait till you see XQuery" on dfdebunk.com

Python 2.5 has the excellent ElementTree library which does pretty much the same thing as Groovy but means you're not leaving the syntax and style of your favourite programming language.

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