All about JAXP, Part 1
By Brett McLaughlin
2005-07-15
Resources
Visit the "XML and Java technology" forum, hosted by Brett McLaughlin, for additional information on how to work with these technologies.
Learn more about JAXP at Sun's Java and XML headquarters.
If you're new to Java programming, you can get JAXP along with a complete JDK by downloading Java 5.0.
For an in-depth look at the new features in JAXP 1.3, read the two-part developerWorks series "What's new in JAXP 1.3?": - Part 1 (November 2004) provides a brief overview of the JAXP specification, gives details of the modifications to the javax.xml.parsers package, and describes a powerful schema caching and validation framework.
- Part 2 (December 2004) touches on utilities that add support for concepts defined in the Namespaces in XML specification, and describes changes to the
javax.xml.transform package.
Find out more about the APIs under the covers of JAXP. Start with SAX 2 for Java at the SAX Web site, and then take a look at DOM at the W3C Web site.
Download the Apache Xerces parser in its JDK 5.0 implementation.
Read "Achieving vendor independence with SAX" (developerWorks, March 2001) to learn how to use SAX and a SAX helper class to achieve vendor independence in your SAX-based applications.
Learn more about JDOM, an open source toolkit that provides a way to represent XML documents in the Java language for easy and efficient reading, writing, and manipulation.
Read "Simplify XML programming with JDOM" (developerWorks, May 2001) to find out how JDOM makes XML document manipulation easy for Java developers.
Check out dom4j, an open source library for working with XML, XPath, and XSLT on the Java platform.
Read Brett McLaughlin's book Java & XML (O'Reilly & Associates, 2001), which explains how Java programmers can use XML to build Web-based enterprise applications.
Learn the basics of manipulating XML documents using Java technology from Doug Tidwell's developerWorks tutorial "XML programming in Java technology, Part 1" (January 2004). Part 2 (July 2004) looks at more difficult topics, such as working with namespaces, validating XML documents, and building XML structures without a typical XML document. Finally, Part 3 (July 2004) shows you how to do more sophisticated tasks such as generate XML data structures, manipulate those structures, and interface XML parsers with non-XML data sources.
Need a more basic introduction to XML? Try the developerWorks Intro to XML tutorial (August 2002) and other educational offerings, which cover the most fundamental topics.
Browse a wide range of XML-related titles at the developerWorks Developer Bookstore.
Find out how you can become an IBM Certified Developer in XML and related technologies.
Tutorial Pages:
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XML processing toolkit facilitates parsing and validation
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JAXP: API or abstraction?
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Starting with SAX
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Dealing with DOM
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Performing validation
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Changing the parser
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Summary
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