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1. What Java XML library do you recommend (to replace dom4j)?    stackoverflow.com

I'm looking for something like dom4j, but without dom4j's warts, such as bad or missing documentation and seemingly stalled development status. Background: I've been using and advocating dom4j, but don't ...

2. dom4j cdata (keep whitespace)    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to get cdata text from a node using dom4j java. My issue here is that all of the line breaks are removed. Essentially, I need to read ...

3. I use dom4j1.6 in java(xml), but I can't addattribute null value, What can I do?    stackoverflow.com

In my source----- Element element1 = element.addElement("List"); element1.addAttribute("Number", (String)Map.get("NUMBER")); element1.addAttribute("Indicator", null); I want a result like that=> element1 Indicator=""/ I use use dom4j1.6 in java, I search the method, addattribute method => Attributes ...

4. How does dom4j library implements Flyweight pattern?    stackoverflow.com

I can see in dom4j library a number of classes with Flyweight prefix: FlyweightAttribute, FlyweightComment, FlyweightText etc. Here is what java doc is saying in the case of FlyweightText: FlyweightText is ...

5. Specify XML path in dom4j    stackoverflow.com

I want to parse a large xml file using dom4j. I'm using the dom4j's feature that you can register event handlers for path expressions for ignoring the elements I don't care ...

6. The type org.jaxen.VariableContext cannot be resolved    stackoverflow.com

So while using dom4j, I came across the following error

The type org.jaxen.VariableContext cannot be resolved

7. Adding xml to DOMElement from String    stackoverflow.com

I have a string with xml content, for example:

String str = "<history><message from="Alice" to="Bob" /></history>";

myElement.addText(str);

8. reading, updating problem with dom4j library    stackoverflow.com

this is my code to write xml file:

public void generateDocument(){
        Document document = DocumentHelper.createDocument();
           ...

9. Xml output problem using dom4j library    stackoverflow.com

original xml:

<credentials>
<machine name="xyz">
<cred-pair>
<login>asad</login>
<password>12345</password>
</cred-pair>
</machine>
<machine name="pqr">
<cred-pair>
<login>ssdas</login>
<password>12345</password>
</cred-pair>
</machine>
</credentials>

insertNode(String login,String password, String machine_name){
SAXReader saxReader = new SAXReader();
boolean checkAttribute = false;
Document document = saxReader.read("creds.xml");
List<?> list1 = document.selectNodes("//machine/@name" );
Iterator<?> itr=list1.iterator();
 while(itr.hasNext()){
Attribute attribute=(Attribute)itr.next();
if( attribute.getValue().equals(machine_name))
{
 checkAttribute=true;
   break;
  ...