Chapter 15. JSP and XML

The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is a meta language for creating markup languages used to describe structured data. XML is a self-describing language, composed of tags and values. It is often used to describe objects that are passed in messages between applications. An example of a simple XML document is included in Listing 15.1.

Code Listing 15.1. item.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<ITEM>
  <ID>33445</ID>
  <DESCRIPTION>Austin Powers The International Man of
Mystery</DESCRIPTION>
  <PRICE>19.95</PRICE>
  <QUANTITY>56</QUANTITY>
</ITEM>

The first line of this snippet describes a processing instruction which states that this XML document is based on version 1 of the XML specification. Processing instructions begin with ...

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