In order to process an XML document, a Java application will typically use the Document Object Model (DOM) API as standardized by the W3C. In this article, André Tost shows that the XSLT and ...

XPathAPI offers simple methods to select nodes on XML document trees using XPath expressions. These methods relieve you from writing many lines of repetitive code. With XPathAPI, many common tasks ...

You can use the Java JDOM classes to read the XML data including the element's attribute property. You use these properties to determine the different types of XML nodes you have in your folder.