Java and XML, 3rd Edition

Chapter 1. In the next two chapters, I'm going to give you a crash course in XML and constraints. Since there is so much material available on XML and related specifications, I'd rather cruise through this material quickly an...

Chapter 2. Constraints It's rare that you'll be able to author XML without worrying about anyone else modifying your document, or anyone having to interpret the meaning of the document. The majority of the time, someone (or so...

Chapter 3. SAX XML is fundamentally about data; programming with XML, then, has to be fundamentally about getting at that data. That process, called parsing, is the basic task of the APIs I'll cover in the next se...

Chapter 4. Advanced SAX What you've seen regarding SAX so far is essentially the simplest way to process and parse XML. And while SAX is indeed named the Simple API for XML, it offers programmers much more than basic parsing...

Chapter 5. DOM SAX is just one of several APIs that allow XML work to be done within Java. This chapter and the next will widen your API knowledge as I introduce the Document Object Model, commonly called the DOM. Th...

Chapter 6. DOM Modules Chapter 5 introduced and detailed the DOM API, and specifically what is called the DOM core. This is the portion of DOM that is most used, as it handles basic XML reading, as well as...

Chapter 7. JAXP With SAX and DOM, there aren't a whole lot of XML problems you run into that you can't solve. Loading, reading, and writing XML are all handled by these APIs, and you can even avoid vendor-specific code with th...

Chapter 8. Pull Parsing With StAX The two APIs we've examined thus farSAX and DOMtake two different approaches to XML document parsing. A SAX parser notifies your code, through predefined interfaces, of various event...

Chapter 9. JDOM JDOM provides a means of accessing an XML document within Java through a tree structure, and in that respect is somewhat similar to the DOM. However, it was built specifically for...

Chapter 10. dom4j Like JDOM, which was explored in the last chapter, dom4j is designed to be a Java-specific alternative to DOMa document object model that is targeted only at Java (thus...

Chapter 11. Data Binding with JAXB As I mentioned at the end of the last chapter, data binding is an XML processing technique that eliminates references to XML nodes from your code. Instead of workin...

Chapter 12. Content Syndication with RSS The next few chapters of this book will discuss some specific XML applications rather than the generalized toolkits for processing XML documents examined in previous...

Chapter 13. XML As Presentation So far, we've primarily looked at XML as a low-level enabling technologyend users won't know if you're using regular properties files or the XML properties files shown in...

Chapter 14. Looking Forward It's almost time to wrap up the journey through Java and XML. I hope you've had fun. Before I leave you to mull over all the possibilities, I want to finish up with a few pointers to interesting XML...