XML and Java™ from scratch

Chapter 4. Getting Serious: XSL Processors and Server-Side Processing

In this chapter

• XSL Processors

• Xalan

• Advanced XSLT: Includes and Imports

• Java Basics

• Advanced XSLT: Parameters

• Our First DOM: Stepping Through Our XML

• Installing and Configuring Tomcat

• Next Steps

Ready to get serious? In Chapter 3, “Defining the Data Structure: Document Type Definitions, XML Schema, and Parsers,” we just used a Java program that came to use already written and ready to run. In this chapter, we're going to take a program called an XSL processor and integrate it into a Java program we write ourselves. Never worked with Java before? That's okay; we'll go over everything you need to know.

We're going to take an XSL processor and use it to transform our XML files into ...