[GROOVY-1193] new convenience methods in DOMCategory: InputStream.parse; Reader.parse; Node.xpath

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-4
• Fix Version/s: 1.6-rc-1, 1.7-beta-1
• Component/s: groovy-jdk, XML Processing
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Dierk König
• Created: 20/Dec/05 10:13
• Updated: 23/Dec/08 05:58
• Resolved: 16/Nov/08 00:49

Description

parse methods should be short for:

def fac = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
def builder = fac.newDocumentBuilder()
def doc = builder.parse(new FileInputStream('filename'))
def root = doc.documentElement

Node.xpath should be short for
org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI.eval(node, 'xpath')

Not sure whether we should also overload get and/or getAt[] with xpath meaning, since that will conflict with current element/attribute access