Java and XML

Appendix A. API Reference

This appendix is a quick reference to the major Java and XML APIs, SAX and DOM. It also includes a complete API reference for JDOM, covered in Chapter 8, and the rest of the book. It is broken down into sections based on the API being documented.

SAX 2.0

SAX 2.0 provides a sequential look into an XML document. Detailed in Chapter 3, and Chapter 5, SAX defines a set of interfaces that can be implemented and will be invoked as callbacks during the XML parsing process. The SAX packages are detailed here, with the classes and interfaces listed alphabetically. In the org.xml.sax.helpers package, a large percentage of the available methods in the helper classes are implementations of interfaces already defined in the core SAX package (org.xml.sax). For the sake of brevity, these duplicate method definitions will be omitted in the helper classes, and instead a comment will be included noting that an interface’s methods are implemented.

Package: org.xml.sax

This package contains the core interfaces and classes for SAX 2.0. Most of the interfaces defined are intended to be implemented by you, the Java developer, with the exception of the actual XMLReader and Attributes implementation. These interfaces should be implemented by your vendor’s XML parsing software. In addition, several exceptions that SAX methods are allowed to throw are defined. Several of the interfaces defined here are part of the SAX 1.0 and 2.0 alpha distributions, and are now deprecated.

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