Notes:
See Differences between the JAXP and
Project X Tutorials for pages that show the changes to the overview
and SAX pages for JAXP.
[Version 2, Update 1 -- 1 Mar 2000]
This tutorial covers the following topics:
Part
I: Understanding XML and the Java XML APIs explains the basics
of XML and gives you a guide to the acronyms associated with it. It also provides
an overview of the JavaTM XML APIs you can
use to manipulate XML-based data. To focus on XML with a minimum of programming,
follow The XML Thread, below.
Part II: Serial Access with the Simple API for XML (SAX)
tells you how to read an XML file sequentially, and walks you through the
callbacks the parser makes to event-handling methods you supply.
Part
III: XML and the Document Object Model (DOM) explains the structure
of DOM, shows how to use it in a JTree, and shows how to create a hierarchy
of objects from an XML document so you can randomly access it and modify its
contents. This is also the API you use to write an XML file after creating
a tree of objects in memory.
Additional
Information contains a description of the character encoding
schemes used in the Java platform and pointers to any other information that
is relevant to, but outside the scope of, this tutorial.
The XML Thread
Scattered throughout the tutorial there are a number of sections devoted
more to explaining the basics of XML than to programming exercises. They are
listed here so as to form an XML thread you can follow without covering the
entire programming tutorial:
