BE THE CODER > XML > XOM Examples

XOM (XML Object Model) is a tree based java API for processing XML by taking the best ideas from SAX and DOM. It is simple, fast and easy to use. This requires the library xom-1.2.7.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows removing an attribute from a specific element.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/xom/tests/RemoveAttribute.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.xom.tests;



import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStream;



import nu.xom.Attribute;

import nu.xom.Builder;

import nu.xom.Document;

import nu.xom.Elements;

import nu.xom.ParsingException;

import nu.xom.ValidityException;



public class RemoveAttribute {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   * @throws ParsingException 

   * @throws ValidityException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws ValidityException, ParsingException, IOException {

    Builder builder = new Builder();

    InputStream ins = RemoveAttribute.class.getClassLoader()

          .getResourceAsStream("randoms.xml");

    

    //Reads and parses the XML

    Document doc = builder.build(ins);



    //Get children

    Elements numbers = doc.getRootElement().getChildElements();

    Attribute evenAttribute = null;

    for (int i = 0 ; i < numbers.size() ; i ++) {

      

      //Get the attribute by name

      evenAttribute = numbers.get(i).getAttribute("even");

      if (evenAttribute != null) {

        //Remove the attribute

        numbers.get(i).removeAttribute(evenAttribute);

      }

    }

    

    System.out.println(doc.toXML());

  }



}

Remove Attribute