Developing Enterprise Web Services: An Architect's Guide

Processing XML

To round off this discussion on XML technology, it is worth taking a brief look at some of the means of processing the XML documents and schemas that we have so far examined to see how we traverse from the XML level to the application level. There are a number of standard, cross-platform tools available that perform much of the hard work involved in processing XML. In this section we concentrate on three of the most prevalent XML processing technologies: SAX, DOM, and XSLT.

The examples we have chosen to illustrate the technologies are necessarily simple. In each example we simply harvest the character information from a simple DVD document as shown Figure 2-55.

With each XML processing tool, we take the XML shown in Figure 2-55 ...