I mentioned XML briefly in Project 1. Now it’s time to examine it in more detail. In this project, you see how XML can be used to represent many kinds of data and how XML files can be processed with the Simple API for XML, or SAX. The goal of this project is to generate a full web site from a single XML file that describes the various web pages and directories.
In this chapter, I assume that you know what XML is and how to write it. If you know some HTML, you’re already familiar with the basics. XML isn’t really a specific language (such as HTML); it’s more like a set of rules that ...