Processing XML with Java

• Processing XML with Java
• Where we're going
• Relevant Standards
• Processing XML with Java is easy
• Prerequisites
• A simple example
• Markup and Character Data
• Markup and Character Data Example
• Entities
• Parsed Character Data
• CDATA sections
• Comments
• Processing Instructions
• The XML Declaration
• Document Type Declaration
• Document Type Definition
• XML Names
• XML Namespaces
• Namespace Syntax
• Namespace URIs
• Binding Prefixes to Namespace URIs
• The Default Namespace
• How Parsers Handle Namespaces
• Canonical XML
• Trees
• Part II: Writing XML Documents with Java
• Unicode
• Readers and Writers
• A Java program that writes Fibonacci numbers into a text file
• fibonacci.txt
• A Java program that writes Fibonacci numbers into an XML file
• fibonacci.xml
• Suppose we want to use a different encoding than UTF-8
• fibonacci_8859_1.xml
• Suppose you want to include a DTD
• valid_fibonacci.xml
• Converting data to XML
• Sample Tab Delimited Data: Baseball Statistics
• A Program to convert tab delimited data to XML
• Baseball Stats in XML
• Converting data to XML while Processing it
• Batting Averages in XML
• The point is this:
• Part III: Reading XML Documents with SAX1
• Parser APIs
• SAX
• SAX Parsers for Java
• The SAX1 Process
• Making a Parser
• Making a Parser Example
• Parsing a Document
• SAXParseException
• Using SAXParseException
• DocumentHandler.java
• DocumentHandler interface
• Event Reporter
• Event Reporter Output
• SAX based TagStripper
• Output from a SAX based TagStripper
• An Improved TagStripper
• Output from XMLToText
• SAX based XMLPrettyPrinter
• Output from a SAX based XMLPrettyPrinter
• Event Based API Caveats
• SAX based XMLPrettyPrinter
• Output from a SAX based XMLPrettyPrinter
• The AttributeList Interface
• XMLPrettyPrinter3
• Output from a SAX based XMLPrettyPrinter
• The HandlerBase class
• An XLink Spider Utility
• Converting XML to other Formats
• Converting slashdot.xml to Tab Delimited Text
• InputSource
• The InputSource interface
• Example of InputSource
• What SAX1 doesn't do
• Part IV: Reading XML Documents with SAX2
• SAX2
• The SAX2 Process
• Making an XMLReader
• Parsing a Document with XMLReader
• ContentHandler.java
• The ContentHandler interface
• SAX2 Event Reporter
• Event Reporter Output
• ContentHandler Example
• Design
• User Interface Class
• ContentHandler Class
• Weblogs Output
• Features and Properties
• Feature/Property SAXExceptions
• Required Features
• Core Features
• Turning on Validation
• Three Levels of Errors
• The ErrorHandler interface
• An ErrorHandler for Reporting Validity Errors
• Validating
• Post DTD Validation Example
• Schemas
• Schema for Songs
• Core Properties
• Nonstandard Features in Xerces 1.0.2
• Nonstandard Properties in Xerces 1.0.2
• Properties for Extension Handlers
• Handling Attributes in SAX2
• Attributes Example
• Resolving Entities
• EntityResolver Example
• Handling DTDs
• DTDHandler Example
• TextEntityReplacer
• Handling Declarations
• The DeclHandler interface:
• Handling Lexical Events
• The LexicalHandler interface
• LexicalHandler Example
• The Locator interface
• Locator Example
• The DefaultHandler class
• The NamespaceSupport class
• Filtering XML
• XMLFilter Example
• TextMerger
• What SAX2 doesn't do
• Part V: Document Object Model
• Document Object Model
• DOM Evolution
• Eight Modules:
• Which modules and features are supported?
• Which modules are supported?
• Which modules are supported? Results
• DOM Trees
• org.w3c.dom
• DOM Parsers for Java
• The DOM Process
• Parsing documents with a DOM Parser Example
• The Node Interface
• The NodeList Interface
• Node Iterator
• Node Reporter
• Node Reporter Output
• Node Values as returned by getNodeValue()
• DOM based TagStripper
• Output from a DOM based TagStripper
• The Document Node
• The Document Interface
• Grab HeadLines
• Element Nodes
• The Element Interface
• IDTagger
• CharacterData interface
• The CharacterData Interface
• ROT13 XML Text
• Text Nodes
• The Text Interface
• Document Fragment Nodes
• The DocumentFragment Interface
• DocumentType Nodes
• The DocumentType Interface
• Example of the DocumentType Interface
• XHTMLValidator
• EntityReference Nodes
• The EntityReference Interface
• Attr Nodes
• The Attr Interface
• XLinkSpider with DOM
• ProcessingInstruction Nodes
• The ProcessingInstruction Interface
• XLinkSpider that Respects robots processing instruction
• Notation Nodes
• The Notation Interface
• Comment Nodes
• The Comment Interface
• Comment Example
• CommentReader Output
• CDATA section Nodes
• The CDATASection Interface
• Entity Nodes
• The Entity Interface
• The Named Node Map interface
• DOMException
• Part V.5: Writing XML Documents with DOM
• org.apache.xerces.dom.DOMImplementationImpl
• A DOM program that writes Fibonacci numbers into an XML document
• Serialization
• A DOM program that writes Fibonacci numbers onto System.out
• fibonacci.xml
• OutputFormat
• Better formatted output
• formatted_fibonacci.xml
• DOM based XMLPrettyPrinter
• Output from a DOM based XMLPrettyPrinter
• The point is this:
• Part VI: Database Integration
• The Advantages of XML for Database Integration
• The Advantages of XML for Database Heavy Web Servers
• Database Technologies
• Database-Java Integration
• Reading XML from Databases
• Fixed XML Vocabulary
• Looser Vocabulary
• Customizable Vocabulary
• If the database serves XML directly, you're in luck
• Middleware to convert to XML
• PHP to XML
• Loose Coupling is Better
• NYWC database through JDBC
• NYWC database through JDBC to XML
• NYWC database through JDBC to DOM
• NYWC database through JDBC to Piped Reader
• NYWC database through JDBC to InputSource
• Generic database access
• Generic database grammar
• Generic database through JDBC to InputSource
• Database Dependent Grammar
• Generic database access through JDBC to InputSource
• Putting XML into Databases
• XML to SQL
• Part VII: XML-RPC
• XML-RPC
• Uses
• Implemented in Various Languages
• Sample Invocation with HTTP Headers
• The HTTP Header
• The XML Payload
• Scalar Values
• Struct Values
• Array Values
• Sample XML-RPC Response with HTTP Header
• XML-RPC Response HTTP Header
• XML-RPC Response XML Payload
• XML-RPC Fault Response
• Communicating with XML-RPC Servers
• Fibonacci Server
• Fibonacci Thread
• Fibonacci Client
• To Learn More
• Questions?