> You can use XPath, for example searching for
> //user[@(protected)>']

You can even compile your XPath expression once and reuse it for many queries
by using a variable:

import org.jdom.xpath.XPath;
...
XPath xpath = XPath.newInstance("//user[@(protected)']");
...
String userName = ...
xpath.setVariable("username", userName);
Element e = xpath.selectSingleNode(doc);

Laurent


Grzegorz Kaczor a ?crit :
>
>> What could be the easiest way to check if a certain username exists?
>> I have an xml like this:
>>
>> <tomcat-users>
>>   <role rolename="tomcat"/>
>>   <role rolename="role1"/>
>>   <role rolename="manager"/>
>>   <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
>>   <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
>>   <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
>> </tomcat-users>
>>
>> When it comes to check if a certain user with a certain username
>> exists, I don know an easy way to do that. Can someone help? Thnx.
> You can use XPath, for example searching for
> //user[@(protected)>']
>
> Regards
> Grzegorz Kaczor
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