Using NodeList

[Channy]

I'm working with this code, and don't know if how it's done is the best way.
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
Document XMLDoc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new URL(xmlFile).openStream());
NodeList linkNames = XMLDoc.getElementsByTagName("urlName");
for (int i=0; i < linkNames.getLength(); i++) {

Node curNode = linkNames.item(i);
NamedNodeMap attrs = curNode.getAttributes();

String currTag = curNode.getNodeName();

if(currTag.equals("urlName"))
urlName.add(i, linkNames.item(i).toString());

}
The xml looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<menu>
<link>
<urlName>whats new?</urlName>
<urlPath>getcurrent.jsp?page=whatsnew</urlPath>

<subLink>
<subUrlName>announcements</subUrlName>
<subUrlPath/>
</subLink>

</link>
</menu>
Any help would be great thanks.

[William Brogden]

I can't think of anything faster or cleaner as long as you are working with the DOM.
Bill

[Jayadev Pulaparty]

Bill,
I heard people saying that JDOM simplifies a lot of things. I don't know exactly what they mean by that.
Just curious.

[William Brogden]

I have not delved too deeply into JDOM but I have also heard that it greatly simplifies working with XML because the structures are closer to normal Java practice. There is a chance that JDOM may become an official alternate to JAXP as I understand it.
Bill

[Roseanne Zhang]

jdom is much faster than dom, and huge more flexible than sax. Easy to use. It uses sax internally, build the tree By using lazy initialization design pattern. It completes more than 80% work of dom with only 20% of the effort. Since it can use xpath/transformer etc. It actually can do more than dom now.
In XML, I am a native speaker of jdom. I learned everything else after jdom. I also introduced jdom to my current work space.