What is Ferris XML

Ferris XML is a project containing classes related to XML Documents, specifically how to easily read simple XML Documents without needing to learn an entire XML-Java mapping tool.

Example

NodeAdaptor

Assume this XML document:

<Root>
        <Names>
                <Name>Rita</Name>
                <Name>Oscar</Name>
                <Name>Yet</Name>
                <Name>Gary</Name>
        </Names>
</Root>

Reading this XML document with NodeAdaptor is simple: 

Document document 
        = getDocument(getResource("GetNodeAdaptors.xml"));

NodeAdaptor root 
        = new NodeAdaptor(document);            
        
NodeAdaptor Root
        = root.getNodeAdaptor("Root");  
        
NodeAdaptor Names
        = Root.getNodeAdaptor("Names"); 
        
List NameNodeAdaptors
        = Names.getNodeAdaptors("Name");
        
NodeAdaptor Rita
        = (NodeAdaptor)NameNodeAdaptors.get(0);         
assertEquals("Name", Rita.getName()); // Tag Name
assertEquals(1, Rita.getType());        // Tag Type
assertEquals("Rita", Rita.getValue()); // Tag Value
assertEquals(0, Rita.getNodeAdaptorCount()); // Tag Child Count