XML by Example

CAUTION

The fact that DOM is specified in IDL does not mean that parsers must be imple-

mented as CORBA objects. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, there are no XML

parsers implemented as CORBA objects. The W3C used only the multilanguage aspect

of IDL and left out all the distribution aspects.

Java, like JavaScript, is a privileged language for XML development. In

fact, most XML tools are written in Java and/or have a Java version.

Indeed, there are probably more Java parsers than parsers written in all

other languages. Most of these parsers support the DOM interface.

If you don’t write Java software, feel free to skip this section.

✔ If you would ...