Description

Java and XML, 3rd Edition, shows you how to cut through all the hype about XML and put it to work. It teaches you how to use the APIs, tools, and tricks of XML to build real-world applications. The result is a new approach to managing information that touches everything from configuration files to web sites.

After two chapters on XML basics, including XPath, XSL, DTDs, and XML Schema, the rest of the book focuses on using XML from your Java applications. This third edition of Java and XML covers all major Java XML processing libraries, including full coverage of the SAX, DOM, StAX, JDOM, and dom4j APIs as well as the latest version of the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB). The chapters on web technology have been entirely rewritten to focus on the today's most relevant topics: syndicating content with RSS and creating Web 2.0 applications. You'll learn how to create, read, and modify RSS feeds for syndicated content and use XML to power the next generation of websites with Ajax and Adobe Flash.

Topics include:

• The basics of XML, including DTDs, namespaces, XML Schema, XPath, and Transformations
• The SAX API, including all handlers, filters, and writers
• The DOM API, including DOM Level 2, Level 3, and the DOM HTML module
• The JDOM API, including the core and a look at XPath support
• The StAX API, including StAX factories, producing documents and XMLPull
• Data Binding with JAXB, using the new JAXB 2.0 annotations
• Web syndication and podcasting with RSS
• XML on the Presentation Layer, paying attention to Ajax and Flash applications

If you are developing with Java and need to use XML, or think that you will be in the future; if you're involved in the new peer-to-peer movement, messaging, or web services; or if you're developing software for electronic commerce, Java and XML will be an indispensable companion.

 

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction

     XML 1.0

     XML 1.1

     XML Transformations

     And More...

2. Constraints

     DTDs

     XML Schema

     RELAX NG

3. SAX

     Setting Up SAX

     Parsing with SAX

     Content Handlers

     Error Handlers

4. Advanced SAX

     Properties and Features

     Resolving Entities

     Notations and Unparsed Entities

     The DefaultHandler Class

     Extension Interfaces

     Filters and Writers

5. DOM

     The Document Object Model

     Serialization

     Modifying and Creating XML

     Namespaces

6. DOM Modules

     Checking for Module Support

     DOM Level 2 Modules

     DOM Level 3 Modules

7. JAXP

     More Than an API

     Parsing XML

     Processing XSL

     XPath

     XML Validation

8. Pull Parsing with StAX

     StAX Basics

     StAX Factories

     Parsing with StAX

     Document Output with StAX

     Factory Properties

     Common Issues with StAX

     XmlPull

9. JDOM

     The Basics

     PropsToXML

     XMLProperties

     More JDOM Classes

     JDOM and Factories

     Common Issues with JDOM

10. dom4j

     Overview

     Reading and Writing with dom4j

     Document Traversal

     Transformations

     Special-Purpose Factories

11. Data Binding with JAXB

     Data Binding Basics

     Introducing JAXB

     Using JAXB

     Other Binding Frameworks

12. Content Syndication with RSS

     What Is RSS?

     Creating an RSS Feed

     Reading an RSS Feed

     Modules with ROME

13. XML As Presentation

     XML and the Model-View-Controller Pattern

     Transforming to HTML with JSP

     Using XSLT

     Ajax

     Flash

14. Looking Forward

Appendix:. SAX Features and Properties

Index