Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features, 11th Edition

Chapter 3. XML

In this chapter

• 3.1 Introducing XML

• 3.2 The Structure of an XML Document

• 3.3 Parsing an XML Document

• 3.4 Validating XML Documents

• 3.5 Locating Information with XPath

• 3.6 Using Namespaces

• 3.7 Streaming Parsers

• 3.8 Generating XML Documents

• 3.9 XSL Transformations

The preface of the book Essential XML by Don Box et al. (Addison-Wesley, 2000) stated 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.” This kind of hype is long gone but, as you will see in this chapter, XML is still a very useful technology for describing structured information. XML tools make it easy to process and transform that information. However, ...