Learn Java for Android Development: Migrating Java SE Programming Skills to Mobile Development

© Peter Späth and Jeff Friesen 2020

P. Späth, J. FriesenLearn Java for Android Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5943-6_16

16. Working with XML and JSON Documents

Peter Späth¹  and Jeff Friesen²

(1)

Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

(2)

Winnipeg, MB, Canada

 

Applications commonly use XML and JSON documents to store and exchange data. In Chapter 16, we introduce XML and JSON for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with these technologies.

Java supports XML via the SAX, DOM, StAX, XPath, and XSLT APIs. After introducing XML, we also introduce these APIs, except for StAX, which Android doesn’t support.

Java JSON processing gets handled by JSR 374 (or the older JSR 353). It is not part of the JSE though, but you find it in Java EE and Jakarta EE, and ...