XMLs have never been my favourite. Attributes, Elements, Values, Child nodes … aargh, they are so confusing. And yet, configuring an application using an xml file seems so simple.
I have written my own XML parsers using the DOM. The whole document gets mapped to a tree structure which you can iterate over and get any value you want. But I find it to be very restrictive, and most of my code depends on the structure of my xml file. I would like to make my xml parser independent of the xml file structure.
I came across Castor XML. It has tools to read the schema and generate Java Classes out of it. Then the xml file is parsed and objects are created. Now this is good. I think this should be much easier than iterating a tree. But !! I have spent a lot of time trying to get Castor working. Its dependencies !!! Damn.
Time to get back to xml parsing again.
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