BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 Kick Start: Simplifying Java Web Applications and J2EE

Chapter 10. Handling Data in WebLogic Workshop: Working with Schema and XML Beans

by Lawrence H. Kaye

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Representing Data with XML

• Accessing and Manipulating XML Data with XML Beans

• Navigating Through XML Data with XPath and XQuery

• Transforming XML Data

Representing Data with XML

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has revolutionized the computing world since its introduction in 1997. Designed as a standard way of representing data transferred over the Internet, XML is really a meta-language for specifying other markup languages. The language contains no predefined set of tags; rather, it offers a means of creating tags and the relationships between them. With this flexibility, XML has been used to represent data with applications ranging ...