Oracle Database 10g XML & SQL: Design, Build, & Manage XML Applications in Java, C, C++, & PL/SQL

CHAPTER 2Accessing XML with DOM, SAX, JAXB, and StAX

The importance of XML and its related technologies being open standards is that components, libraries, and applications built to these standards have the potential ι for a high level of interoperability and reuse. To parse and access XML documents, you can call upon a number of components and utilities. You can use the W3C-specified Document Object Model (DOM) APIs to query and manipulate a parsed document or create a new document from scratch. You can use the Simple API for XML (SAX) event-based APIs for the same purpose without building a full-blown DOM tree in memory. You can use the Sun Microsystems Java Extension standard Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) APIs to generate Java code ...