In this chapter, we cover most of the special-purpose, text-related APIs in Java, from simple classes for parsing words and numbers to advanced text formatting, internationalization, and regular expressions. But because so much of what we do with computers is oriented around text, classifying APIs as strictly text-related can be somewhat arbitrary. Some of the text-related packages we cover in the next chapter include the Java Calendar API, the Properties and User Preferences APIs, and the Logging API. But some of the most important tools in the text arena are those for working with the Extensible Markup Language, XML. In Chapter 24, we cover XML in detail, along with the XSL/XSLT stylesheet language. Together they provide a powerful framework for rendering documents.
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