Java Language and XML Processing Tutorial: SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX Guide: SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX Guide

Author: Harold
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: This book introduces how to handle completely general XML, rather than being limited to a specific aspect. XML is just XML, not anything else. We explain how to design programs to process true XML: effective and invalid, mixed and non-mixed, typed and untyped, as well as different combinations of these characteristics. To achieve this goal, the book primarily focuses on APIs that do not hide the essence of XML. Specifically, there are three major categories of Java APIs that correctly model XML, rather than modeling specific classes of XML documents or a narrow subset of XML. This book is written for Java programmers who want to integrate XML into their systems, serving as a practical and comprehensive guide and tutorial on how to use the Java programming language to process XML documents. It briefly outlines the basics of XML, including XML syntax, DTDs, schemas, validity, stylesheets, and XML protocols such as XML-RPC, SOAP, and RSS. The core content of the book is an in-depth introduction to the key XML APIs used by Java programmers to generate and manipulate XML documents, including SAX, DOM (Document Object Model), and JDOM. Additionally, it covers many important supplements to these core APIs, such as XPath, XSLT, TrAX, and JAXP. The book provides a detailed and task-oriented approach, serving as a valuable reference for all Java programmers who need to use XML.