Process and parse XML with ease using Jakarta Digester

Most of the time, parsing an XML document involves either programming a parser to sequentially traverse an XML document, taking different actions as it encounters different tags (SAX) or building a tree representation of the document in memory and using tree methods to navigate the tree's parent-child relationships (DOM). The Jakarta Project offers a third option, via its Digester component: writing rules to map XML elements into Java objects and defining complex actions for such objects. In this download, you will get an introduction to processing XML with Jakarta Digester, including how it can be used to create pattern-matching rules for an XML document and to perform actions on the resulting collections.

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