5.10. Summary
The acceptance of XML as a standard is on the rise. If you offer to pass data to another division or another company, the receiving information technology group can hardly say no to a request to encode the data in XML. On the other hand, the integration of XML and Java is still primitive at the time of this writing. The two main approaches—SAX and DOM—both have drawbacks.
If you read coffee data into DOM, for example, a coffee is a node that has roast as a node that has french as a node. All these nodes have equal status as nodes in the tree. But in Java, there are fundamental differences between these types of information. A coffee is an object with roast as an attribute and french as this attribute's value. The proper translation ...
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