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XML programming in Java technology, Part 1

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(This biography was written by Lily Castle Tidwell, the author's daughter.)

My daddy's name is Doug Tidwell. He has black hair. Daddy wears glasses. He is six feet tall. His eyes are brown.

Daddy likes to play catch with me. He likes to run. He's really fast. He is a really good bike rider. His bike is blue.

My daddy's job is to travel. He goes to China a lot. He has hiked the Great Wall of China. He got a certificate.

I LOVE YOU DADDY!

P.S. Every day that has a d in it, you are the goofiest.

You can contact the author, Doug Tidwell, at dtidwell@us.ibm.com.

Summary:  This updated tutorial covers the basics of manipulating XML documents using Java technology. Doug Tidwell looks at the common APIs for XML and discusses how to parse, create, manipulate, and transform XML documents.

Date:  13 Jan 2004
Level:  Introductory PDF:  A4 and Letter (145 KB | 34 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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  • Tutorials
    • "Introduction to XML" covers the basics of XML. A good place to start if you're new to markup languages (developerWorks, August 2002).
    • "Understanding DOM" covers the Document Object Model in far more depth than I've covered here (developerWorks, July 2003).
    • "Understanding SAX" gives an in-depth overview of the Simple API for XML (developerWorks, July 2003).

  • Books
    • Learning XML, 2nd Edition , by Erik T. Ray, published by O'Reilly, is a very good (and very popular) book for XML beginners (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnxml2/).
    • XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition , by Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means, published by O'Reilly, is a great reference to keep on your desk, especially if you know the basics of XML (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlnut2/).
    • Processing XML with Java: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX , by Elliotte Rusty Harold (published by Addison-Wesley) is an in-depth look at all of the APIs I've covered here (http://www.awprofessional.com). The author is one of the XML community's leading authors. (The Addison-Wesley Web site doesn't have a direct link to the book; search for "Processing XML" to find the book's Web page.)
    • Java and XML, 2nd Edition , by Brett McLaughlin, is another excellent discussion of using the APIs covered here with Java technology (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml2/).
    • O'Reilly's SAX2 is the best source I've seen for in-depth information about the SAX API (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sax2/). It's written by David Brownell, the maintainer of SAX, so buying the book helps David continue his work.

  • Specs
    • The DOM Level 1 spec is available at the W3C's Web site (http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-1-20000929/). All the specs for DOM Levels 1, 2, and 3 are available on the DOM Technical Reports page at the W3C (http://www.w3.org/DOM/DOMTR).
    • A formal JDOM spec has not been written at this point (January 2004); the JDOM Web site states that the JDOM Javadoc files are the spec for now (http://www.jdom.org/docs/apidocs/). In addition, the JDOM documentation page has a list of useful JDOM articles (http://www.jdom.org/downloads/docs.html).
    • All things SAX, including a quick-start document, a discussion of the APIs, and the SAX Javadoc files, are at www.saxproject.org.
    • I mentioned XML Infoset briefly in the Introduction section; you can see the Infoset spec in all its glory at the W3C's Web site (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/).

  • Additional resources

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  • Download the zip file of examples for this tutorial, xmlprogj.zip.

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