THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

XML Binding

For the business card editor we had to:

write Java classes corresponding to the XML schema (bind)
write code to import an XML document (unmarshal)
write code to export an XML document (marshal)

This is necessary for every XML application in Java, so automatic support would be useful.

Things to consider when designing a data binding framework:

which XML schema language is supported?
can the binding into classes be customized?
does the generated classes extend some standard framework?
are imported documents validated?
are exported documents validated?
are documents (partially) validated when they are modified?

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