The entire book is available online in plain vanilla HTML at my Cafe con Leche web site. You can find it at http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/. Every word of this book is there. Nothing has been held back or left out. I do hope you’ll also find the printed book useful and choose to buy it—It’s certainly cheaper than the paper and toner you’d use up printing out all 1000+ pages from your laser printer—but you are by no means obligated to do so. My goal is to make this material as broadly available and useful as possible.

The online version has no protection other than copyright law and your own good will. You don’t need to register to read it, or download some special electronic key that becomes invalid when you buy a new laptop, and that probably won’t run on Linux or a Mac in the first place. I want people to read and use this book. I do not want to put up silly roadblocks that make it less useful than it could be. I will ask that as a courtesy you do not republish the online edition on your own server. Doing so makes it extremely difficult for me to keep the book up-to-date. If you want to save a few pages on your laptop so you can read this book on an airplane, I don’t really mind. However, please don’t pass out your own copies to anyone else. Instead refer your friends and colleagues to the web site or the printed book.