Java packages for XML

• javax.xml.parsers contains

  • SAXParserFactory gives you a SAX parser
  • DocumentBuilderFactory gives you a DocumentBuilder,
  • The Document Builder can process XML to produce a Document object or create an empty Document object..

• The factory API’s allow you to plug-in various vendor parsers at run-time without changing the code. For example, you can load

  • com.ibm.xml.parser (IBM’s parser)
  • com.ms.xml.parser (Microsoft’s parser)
  • com.sun.xml.parser or com.sun.xml.ValidatingParser
    • parsers can validate to various degrees depending on whether they process all external entities

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