simple search of an XML document

[mellowmoose]

Is there a simple search method, using java, for a XML document.

The search does not need to be based on element values, but if it is thats fine too.

thanks

[Alex Vincent]

What are you searching for? An element? A certain string of text?

What application is doing the searching?

[mellowmoose]

Im searching XML files of an unknown format and structure (i dont know the element names beforehand), thus I need to search on the actual data content.

Im using Java, Xreces and the DOM API for my application which currently parses an XML file.

Thus the next step is to search the parsed file (held in a DOM structure) it for keywords contained within the data content.

How best can I do this ?

Thanks very much

[Alex Vincent]

I assume by content you mean text.

Your best friend for searching for a particular section of text might be DOM 2 Traversal. Unless there are element tags (not nodes, but tags) in the middle of your text...

If there are, then DOM 2 Range can get you the text, the whole text and nothing but the text and you can do a simple regular expression check against that.

Try not to use proprietary extensions like innerText; I seriously doubt anybody but IE supports them.