Can I get to an index of parsed XML using XStream

Question

I am using XStream library for XML parsing. I was wondering if the library allows jumping to a particular node directly using the index.

So for eg

<details>
  <personal>
      <basicInfo>
        <firstName>John</firstName>
        <lastName>Doe</lastName>
        <phoneNumber>9999999999</phoneNumber>
        <dateOfBirth>1990-01-01</dateOfBirth>
      </basicInfo>
      <address>
        <street>random St.</street>
        <city>City</city>
        <stateProv>BC</stateProv>
        <country>CA</country>
        <postCode>12345</postCode>
      </address>
    </personal>
  <personal>
      <basicInfo>
        <firstName>John2</firstName>
        <lastName>Doe2</lastName>
        <phoneNumber>9999999999</phoneNumber>
        <dateOfBirth>1990-01-01</dateOfBirth>
      </basicInfo>
      <address>
        <street>random St.2</street>
        <city>City2</city>
        <stateProv>BC2</stateProv>
        <country>CA2</country>
        <postCode>12345</postCode>
      </address>
    </personal>
</details>

For the XML above I would like to skip the first <personal>...</personal> and only process the second node. Can I call it using an index.

Answer 1

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again.

I am not sure what you mean by process in this context, but if your POJO for serialization is set up correctly to contain a List of "personal" nodes. I don't see why you couldn't deserialize the XML and remove the unwanted node after the fact.

Answer 2

据我所知，vtd-xml是唯一原生提供索引功能的XML解析例程，称为vtd + XML。