Summary

In this chapter we demonstrated the DOM and SAX approaches to parsing an XML document. DOM parsing is suitable if document nodes are to be modified and navigated with random access. SAX parsing is useful if you want to go through the XML document once, responding to nodes as you encounter them. If you want to create an encapsulation of the XML document as a DOM tree that you can manipulate later, you need to use DOM parsing.

In this chapter we created an XML document using the JAXP API. In the next chapter, we will create an XML document from an XML Schema. First, we will create an XML Schema in JDeveloper and subsequently we will instantiate an XML document from the XML Schema.