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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