XPath support in Oracle XDK 11g
As we discussed in Chapter 1, Oracle XML Developer's Kit 11g, which is included in JDeveloper, provides the DOMParser class to parse an XML document and construct a DOM structure of the XML document. An XMLDocument object represents the DOM structure of an XML document. An XMLDocument object may be retrieved from a DOMParser object after an XML document has been parsed. The XMLDocument class provides select methods to select nodes in an XML document with an XPath expression.
In this chapter we shall parse an example XML document with the DOMParser class, obtain an XMLDocument object for the XML document, and select nodes from the document with the XMLDocument class select methods. The different select methods in the XMLDocument class are discussed in the following table:
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Selects a single node that matches an XPath expression. If more than one node matches the specified expression, the... |
