With the popularity of Apache Axis2, Axiom also got a good attention. One of the cool things is that you don't need to have Axis2 to use Axiom, you can download Axiom separately and use specifically. Axiom is used in a number of Apache project and other project in addition to Apache Axis2. In the first part of the article I discussed Pull and Push parser technology as well as gave an Axiom overview. I also showed how to create Axiom in various ways and how to work with attributes and namespaces. So if you followed the first part, then you have good background knowledge to follow this article. If you have not followed the first part then it is recommended that you read it before continuing.
Tree Navigation
Navigating the object structure can be done in the usual way by using the list of children (similar to any of the XML processing tool). However in Axiom, the child nodes are returned as an iterator. The idea of iterator is to support “Pull parsing” and ”On-Demand” building, so only the element you asked for will be read into the memory. Others will remain untouched. The following code sample shows how the children can be accessed. The children are of the type OMNode and can either be of type OMText or OMElement.
Get all Nodes
Iterator children = root.getChildren();
while(children.hasNext()){
OMNode node = (OMNode)children.next();
}
Get Only Elements
You can use following code to all child OMElement for a given Element, in this case you will not get any OMText element.
Iterator children = root.getChildElements();
while(children.hasNext()){
OMElement node = (OMElement)children.next();
}
Get Element by Name
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