Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

Other Java XML Standards

The common tools and technologies for working with XML in Java have now been covered. However, occasionally there are cases in which a more specialized Java XML technology can be helpful. Several of these technologies are discussed in this section.

JDOM

JDOM is a standard for directly accessing, manipulating, and outputting XML documents from Java code. In this sense, it is very similar to the Java API for XML Binding (JAXB). However, although JDOM is not an official Sun Java standard, it has been available for a much longer time and has a more mature implementation. The reference JDOM implementation is available at http://www.jdom.org/.

XSL:FO

Although XSLT is a great technology for transforming XML documents into other ...