JSP™ and XML Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP™ Application

Java XML/XSL APIs

This section covers the Java APIs that we haven't yet discussed. In later chapters, we will use several of these APIs to make life easier for XML users.

DOM (XML Document Object Model)

The DOM will be covered in detail in Chapter 5, “Using DOM.” The DOM represents the standard W3C representation of an XML document. The advantage that the DOM offers is that it's a standard, and the same DOM methods that work within Java code will work within a Web browser using JavaScript, or within a C application. The DOM is very widely understood and has extensive support in the user community.

The biggest problem that the DOM has is that it creates large in-memory representations of XML documents. This makes it slow and often impractical ...