Note: This tutorial is still a work
in progress. Thanks!
[Version 1, Update 5 -- 9 Aug 1999]
This tutorial covers the following topics:
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.
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.
Manipulating
Document Contents with the Document Object Model (DOM) explains
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.
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:
