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DOM support

XML DOM support in Gaia is implemented in the static utility class eu.beesoft.gaia.xml.Xml.

There is number of parse() methods implemented in this class to parse given input (file, input stream, reader, ...) to the Document instance. You need no DocumentBuilderFactory etc. to parse XML (it is invoked on background).

Some methods look like DOM4J methods to make programming easier:

• getElementIterator (Element) returns iterator of sub-elements
• getAttributes (Element) returns Map
• getAttributeValue (String, Element) returns attribute value from the element

and there is a number getAttributeValue() methods with default values.