Java with XML

Length: 3 days
CourseID: jxml

Prerequisites:

Participants should have Java development background. Familiarity XML is helpful. A successful student comes to this class having completed the Intro java class as well as having java development experience.

Overview:

The Java programming language integrates XML Parsing into the API. This API is introduced and Java standard approaches to manipulating XML are introduced. Student will walk away with an ability to generate and parse XML in Java applications.

Objectives:

Learn XML features of the Java Programming Language

Build and use SAX XML Parsers

Build and use DOM XML Parsers

Build and use JDOM XML Parsers

Persist data as XML

Validate XML Data

Transform XML with XSLT

Chapters:

Introduction to XML

XML Standards	XML Support with Java
XML Syntax	DTDs
Schemas	Parsers
JAXP

Parsing XML with SAX

What is SAX	Document Components
Building a Simple Parser	Handling SAX Events
Handling Exceptions	SAX Parser Attributes

Parsing with DOM

What is DOM	DOM Components
DOM Structure	Building the Parser
Setting Options	Parsing XML
DOM Limitations

Building DOM Trees

Introducing DOM building	Building the basic Tree
Adding child elements	Adding Attributes
Defining Entities	Adding validation information
Outputting DOM

Validating XML

DTD Validation	DTD Components
Schema Validation	Schema Components
Whitespace Management	Configuring the Parser
Parser Exceptions

Integrating XML

JDOM History	JDOM Parsing
JDOM Components	Building the Parser
Features of JDOM	XSLT and the Parser
Outputting JDOM documents