The event-driven parser is called SAX (simple API for XML processing). A tree-based parser creates a DOM (document object model) tree in memory at the time the XML file is read and parsed. The DOM ...

Writing XML parser independent code has many benefits; the JAXP API is to XML as the JDBC API is to the relational database. This introductory article will educate developers about the JAXP API, and ...

So SAX parsing skirts the real problems of XML processing. Seeking an easier-to-use alternative to SAX, a growing number of developers have turned to StAX (Streaming API for XML).

Limit XML functionality Many people want XML’s simple, self-describing textual data format. They want to easily pick out elements, attributes and their values, and elements’ textual content.

For instance, Web services are unimaginable without XML, and with the usage of Web services projected to boom over the next few years, there is no escaping XML. In this article, you will look at the ...

For one, DTD files only support character data types and have no mechanism for supporting user-defined data types, So schemas defined with DTD files have to express numeric data as strings. That ...