dom « jaxp « Java XML Q&A

1. In XML what do you call this: //@Dohicky.0 and how to address it in Java    stackoverflow.com

It's my first time parsing XML and I don't really know what I'm doing at the moment. Here's my XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MyDocument xmi:version="2.0">
  <Thingamabob name="A" hasDohicky="//@Dohicky.0">
    ...

2. jaxp object caching for MessageFactory    stackoverflow.com

Can the javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory be reused?
I.e.

msgFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance(); 

3. Optimizing DOM and XPath Java code    stackoverflow.com

My code is too slow, but I'm not sure how to improve it. Reading from disk into DOM for a 1k-file takes about 20 ms, that might be okay depending on ...

4. JAXP DOM reading and writting issues    forums.oracle.com

Removing the whitespace is the wrong approach. Instead you should realize that the creators of that XML can put in whitespace wherever they feel like it, and more importantly, that the whitespace is also part of the document. In particular it forms text nodes which are children of the element in which they are located, just as element nodes are children. ...