Core Web Programming / XML

Topics in This Chapter

• Representing an entire XML document using the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2
• Using DOM to display the outline of an XML document in a JTree
• Responding to individual XML parsing events with the Simple API for XML Parsing (SAX) 2.0
• Printing the outline of an XML document using SAX
• Counting book orders using SAX
• Transforming XML using XSLT
• Invoking XSLT through custom JSP tags
• Hiding vendor-specific details with the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP)

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