XML traversing problem

[swapnel surade]

Hi,

I'm using JDOM for parsing the xml file.To traverse the file I have used for loop.
Is there any other parser which will give me the feature so that I dont have to traverse the file for searching the node.
for e.g

<bottombar>
<states>
<state name="main">
<sometag1>
<sometag2>
</state>
<state name="sub">
<sometag1>
<sometag2>
</state>
</states>
</bottombar>

as you can see the XML if I want to traverse the states children then I have to apply for loop so that I can get the required tag.
But I want a way by which if i gave "name" of the state then I should get that element.

thanks.

[Ulf Dittmer]

That's what XPath is for. To use it, you don't need any extra library - it comes as part of the JRE in the javax.xml.xpath package. The XmlFaq links to a couple of XPath introductions.