XML and Java™ from scratch

Manipulating In-Memory Documents

Now that we've created an order, we need to give the user a way to review the items that have been added to it. Our algorithm for doing that might look something like this:

Check for an existing order
If the order exists, display information on each item:
    Get the order item
    Retrieve information on the item from products.xml
    Display the information on that item
Else
    Display a message that there is no current order

Let's think about how we want to do this. Looking at the orders.xml file, a typical order might look similar to this:

 <order order_id="To1010mC7161452772864825At"> <order_status>open</order_status> <item product_id="RC2342"> <quantity>3</quantity> </item> <item product_id="QA3452"> <quantity>1</quantity> ...