December 2016
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
33h 9m
English
Content preview from Core Java, Volume II—Advanced Features, Tenth Edition
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Chapter 3. XML
In this chapter
• 3.3 Validating XML Documents
• 3.4 Locating Information with XPath
The preface of the book Essential XML by Don Box et al. (Addison-Wesley, 2000) states only half-jokingly: “The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has replaced Java, Design Patterns, and Object Technology as the software industry’s solution to world hunger.” Indeed, as you will see in this chapter, XML is a very useful technology for describing structured information. XML tools make it easy to process and transform that information. However, XML is not a silver bullet. You need domain-specific ...
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