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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