Overview

• XML and related technologies
• Current XML resources
• Java APIs and documentation
• Obtaining and installing an XML parser
• Basic structure of an XML document
• Constraining XML with DTD
• Constraining XML with XML Schema
• Well-formed and valid XML

Using DOM

• The Document Object Model API
• The Document class
• The Node class and node types
• The NodeList class
• Navigating a DOM tree
• Validation in DOM
• DOM exceptions
• Memory and performance issues

Using SAX

• The Simple API for XML
• Using the XMLReaderFactory class
• An overview of parsing and the SAX events
• Validation in SAX
• The ContentHandler interface
• The Locator interface
• The start and end of a document
• Processing elements
• Processing instructions
• Namespace callbacks
• Exceptions and error handlers

XML Topics

• Using JAXP to improve portability
• The JDOM API
• Generating XML
• Custom handlers and XML-RPC
• XML and configuration information