Pro XML Development with Java Technology [Paperback]

XML is the logical choice for a powerful data medium transferable across applications and platforms. This book takes a streamlined approach, giving the reader all they need to hit the ground running, without making them trawl through hundreds of pages of syntax. The book is also thoroughly up-to-date, covering the newest XML standards (DOM 3.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0) and Java tools (including JAXB, Xerces2-j, JAXP, XML Beans, and many more,) and the relevant new features of Java 5 and 6. In short, the book gives readers all they need to master cutting edge XML development with Java.

This book takes a streamlined approach to XML development, covering the newest XML standards and Java tools and the relevant new features of Java 5 and 6. The authors give readers all they need to master cutting edge XML development with Java.

XML is one of todays most important technologiesit is supported natively by many databases, and technologies, and there are few alternatives when youre faced with the need for a powerful data medium transferable across any application and platform. And since XML files are compact and text-based, it is the perfect data medium for delivering data on to the Internet.

XML has been around for many years, and there have been a few best-selling Java/XML drill down books in the past, so what makes this book different? Well, a lot of the competitors out there are large tomes, and are very old now; this book assumes a different approach, showing that you can give the reader all they need to know to hit the ground running, without making them trawl through hundreds of pages of syntax.

The book is also bang up-to-date, looking at all the newest XML standards (DOM 3.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0) and Java tools (including JAXB, Xerces2-j, JAXP, XML Beans, and many more,) and the latest features of Java 5 and 6 are covered where appropriate. In short,lâ