Java XML Processing - OFO-IFA

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Introduction  Java XML Processing  Agenda Summary of XML Basic Concepts  7 XML statements  A brief history of XML  XML vs. SGML  XML vs. HTML  XML vs. SGML vs. HTML vs. XHTML  XML advantages  XML uses  Structure of an XML document  Criteria for well-formedness  A test for proper nesting ? OK  A test for proper nesting ? NOK!  XML namespaces  Additional remarks on XML syntax  XML schemas  Validity of XML documents  XML schema languages  Rendering XML using XSLT  XSLT-XPath interaction  XSLT Structure  A simple XSLT transformation  How does XSLT work?  How does XSLT work  The XSLT data model  Structure of an XSLT document  The XSLT translation process  A complete example  Steps in an XSLT application  XSLT Example  Essential XSLT elements  XPath examples  Displaying XML with CSS  XSL:FO (Formatting Objects)  XML to XSL-FO with XSLT  The XSL-FO transformation  Rendering engine: Apache FOP  XSL-FO document overview  The transformation process  XSL-FO document structure  XSL-FO example  XML support in Office 2003  WordML and other technologies  Physical storage of XML data  Example of XML support in SQL Server 2005 Overview of Java APIs for XML  Overview  Comparing SAX to DOM  Example  The JAXP packages  The JAXP JAR files XML Uses and Best Practices

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XML uses in applications Using patterns: Builder Using patterns: Visitor SAX: Simple API for XML  SAX  Anatom y of a SAX application  SAX structure  SAX callback mechanism  SAXParser instantiation  class DefaultHandler  ContentHandler interface  Notes on ContentHandler methods  SAX exception handling  Additional event handling  Additional event handling  SAX Example  XML and Java Workshop  Workshop proposals  Exercise DOM: Document Object Model  DOM  What is DOM?  The DOM Tree Structure  Tree View of an XML Document  Anatom y of a DOM application  DOM Structure  DocumentBuilder instantiation  DOM interfaces  The Document interface  DOM exception handling  DOM Level 2 and 3  Exercise StAX: Streaming API for XML  Pull-type streaming API: StAX  Obtaining StAX  Anatom y of a StAX application  StAX example  StAX event types  StAX event interfaces  Testing StAX events  Document output with StAX  Exercise JDOM: Java Document Object Model  Why another tree-based API?  The core JDOM classes  Constructors  Input and output  Input examples  Output examples  Creating documents and elements  Reading and accessing elements  The Namespace Class examples  Other possibilities of JDOM  Exercise TrAX: Transformer API for XML  TrAX  JAXP XSLT Structure: TraX  How does the TrAX API work

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Steps in a TrAX API application TrAX API Example Exercise JAXB: Java Architecture for XML Binding  JAXB: Java Architecture for XML Binding  Marshalling and unmarshalling  JAXB example  Data binding, metadata and Schemas  When to use data binding  JAXB 1.0 overview  JAXB 2.0 overview  Finding JAXB  Working with JAXB: the JAXBContext  Compiling a Schema  The inverse: Creating a Schema from class  Simple marshalling  Simple unmarshalling  Schema validation when marshalling  More advanced JAXB uses  Exercise Java XML Web Services  What is a web service?  History  Advantages  Disadvantages  XML technologies involved  The SOAP protocol  The WSDL descriptor  Web services in Java  JAX-WS  JAX-WS example  Exercise Conclusion