Castor provides 3 ways to parse an xml file into java objects. I have used two of those, and am writing this post to give an introduction into the method.
The first way is to create java classes for each of the elements and then use the marshall and unmarshall methods to parse the xml file. Castor uses introspection techniques to map elements with fields of the java class. I have not used this method, and will ...
Continue Reading ?After lot of trying I finally managed to get Castor tools working to parse XML files. And now that I have it working for me, I am always going to use it for XML parsing. It makes things so much simpler and easier.
Castor takes in a xml file and unmarshals it into Java objects. There are three ways to associate Java Classes with XML elements.
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 ...
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