THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

XML and programming

XSLT, XPath and XQuery provide tools for specialized tasks.

But many applications are not covered:

To work with XML in general-purpose programming languages we need to:

DOM and SAX are corresponding APIs that are language independent and supported by numerous languages.

JDOM is an API that is tailored to Java.

Typical examples: domain-specific editors and browsers.