Re: XML parser and writer
Jeff Higgins wrote:
Jeff Higgins wrote:
Brandon McCombs wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm writing a program to help people track various items and placing them
on a calendar. These items are mainly ones that reoccur (monthly bills
for example). Each item (or task) has various properties that are set for
it and I was thinking of storing all the data in an XML file. I'd parse
the file and have the data available throughout the execution of the
program. Updates to the file would occur when someone edits a task to
change its re-occurrence frequency, etc. Therefore I will need to both
easily parse and write new XML files. I don't have a DTD or schema
developed and I may later so any API I use will have to work w/o that for
now. Can anyone suggest a simple API for parsing/writing my own made-up
XML files? I've ruled out SAX since it only parses and was thinking of
using DOM but I don't know if that will work because I've never did any
programming with XML before.
thanks for any pointers
Maybe a Java-XML binding framework?
XStream, Castor, JAXB come to mind.
OTOH, why not some database technology?
I thought about an internal (to the app) database however I wanted to
strike a balance between beginning and advanced user configurability and
the ease with which to carry the user settings from computer to
computer. In my mind, an advanced user can edit the XML file directly at
the risk of messing stuff up (that's where it would be nice to
eventually have a schema defined) instead of using a GUI interface I'll
eventually create for beginner users. Simply copying the XML file from
1 computer to another makes it easy for a user to use the application on
multiple computers if desired (although it would be up to them to keep
them sync'ed up).
Using a database made both of those things more difficult in my mind. An
advanced user would have no way of modifying an internal db and an
external db would just be overkill and make the installation of the app
overly complicated.
Any thoughts to the contrary? Maybe my knowledge is incorrect regarding
internal (embedded?) databases.
thanks
Brandon
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