XML

eXtensible Markup Language

XML is a W3C standard for creating machine-readable data formats. Formats created with XML are called XML Applications.

Wikipedia entry

Resources

• XML FAQ
• http://www.w3.org/XML/
• http://java.sun.com/xml/
• http://www.xml.com/
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/

Presentations

• Sending and receiving XML in a Java application
• Does XML Suck?

Open source projects

• http://xml.apache.org/
• http://www.jdom.org/
• http://www.dom4j.org/
• XOM
• https://xsom.dev.java.net/
• Apache Commons XMLIO - not in active development as of mid 2007

• http://xmlenc.sourceforge.net/
• https://txw.dev.java.net/
• http://www.osjava.org/xmlwriter/
• http://xmlc.objectweb.org/
• https://xmldiff.dev.java.net/
• Scriptella ETL Tool

Commercial software

• XmlSpy
• <oXygen/> XML Editor
• Ricebridge XML Manager

Related topics

• JAXP
• STAX
• SAX
• DOM
• DTD
• XSD
• XMLDataBinding
• XPath
• XSL
• Schematron
• XForms

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