Overview
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Learn how to create and parse XML with a variety of Java APIs and libraries, including DOM, SAX, JAXB, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Reviewing XML terminology
- Choosing an XML processing API
- Exploring the sample data provider project
- Reading XML as a string
- How SAX works
- Creating a SAX event handler class
- Tracking XML elements in SAX handlers
- Capturing text values in SAX handlers
- Handling namespace strings and prefixes with SAX
- Handling parsing errors in SAX
- How DOM works
- Creating a DOM document
- Adding child elements with DOM
- Adding data elements and attributes with DOM
- Wrapping text in CDATA sections with DOM
- Serializing a DOM document to a string
- Serializing a DOM document to a file
- Reading an XML file with DocumentBuilder
- Getting data from XML with DOM
- Handling XML namespaces and prefixes with DOM
- Searching a DOM object tree with XPath
- How JDOM works
- Creating an XML document with JDOM
- Adding data to an XML document with JDOM
- Wrapping text in CDATA sections with JDOM
- Outputting an XML file with JDOM
- Parsing an XML file with JDOM
- Getting data from XML with JDOM
- Searching a JDOM document with XPath
- How StAX works
- Exporting data with XMLStreamWriter
- Creating an XML string with XMLStreamWriter
- Formatting documents with StAX utility classes
- Outputting an XML file with XMLStreamWriter
- Parsing an XML file with XMLStreamReader
- Getting data from XML with XMLStreamReader
- Parsing an XML file with XMLEventReader
- Parsing XML in Android with XmlPullParser
- Comparing XML binding with other programming models
- Annotating POJO classes for use with JAXB
- Creating XML from annotated classes with JAXB
- Parsing XML with JAXB and annotated classes
- Comparing Simple to JAXB
- Annotating POJO classes for use with Simple
- Creating XML from annotated classes with Simple
- Parsing XML with Simple and annotated classes
- Next steps
