Table of Contents

Preface. 1. Introduction What Is It? How Do I Use It? Why Should I Use It? What's Next? 2. Creating XML An XML Document The Header The Content What's Next? 3. Parsing XML Getting Prepared SAX Readers Content Handlers Error Handlers A Better Way to Load a Parser "Gotcha!" What's Next? 4. Constraining XML Why Constrain XML Data? Document Type Definitions XML Schema What's Next? 5. Validating XML Configuring the Parser Output of XML Validation The DTDHandler Interface "Gotcha!" What's Next? 6. Transforming XML The Purpose The Components The Syntax What's Next? 7. Traversing XML Getting the Output Getting the Input The Document Object Model (DOM) "Gotcha!" What's Next? 8. JDOM Parsers and the Java API for XML Parsing JDOM: Another API? Getting a Document Using a Document Outputting a Document What's Next? 9. Web Publishing Frameworks Selecting a Framework Installation Using a Publishing Framework XSP Cocoon 2.0 and Beyond What's Next? 10. XML-RPC RPC Versus RMI Saying Hello Putting the Load on the Server The Real World What's Next? 11. XML for Configurations EJB Deployment Descriptors Creating an XML Configuration File Reading an XML Configuration File The Real World What's Next? 12. Creating XML with Java Loading the Data Modifying the Data XML from Scratch The Real World What's Next? 13. Business-to-Business The Foobar Public Library mytechbooks.com Push Versus Pull The Real World What's Next? 14. XML Schema To DTD or Not To DTD Java Parallels What's Next? A. API Reference B. SAX 2.0 Features and Properties Index

About the Author

Brett McLaughlin has been working in computers since the Logo days. (Remember the little triangle?) He currently specializes in building application infrastructure using Java and Java-related technologies. He has spent the last several years implementing these infrastructures at Nextel Communications and Allegiance Telecom, Inc. Brett is one of the co-founders of the Java Apache project Turbine, which builds a reusable component architecture for web application development using Java servlets. He is also a contributor of the EJBoss project, an open source EJB application server, and Cocoon, an open source XML web-publishing engine. He is author of the soon-to-be-released O'Reilly book, XML for Java Developers, as well as an O'Reilly book set for release late in 2000, Enterprise Applications in Java. These books and projects all focus on using XML and the J2EE platform in mission-critical, high-performance, distributed systems.