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Harold, Elliotte Rusty.

Processing XML with Java : a guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX / Elliotte Rusty Harold.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-201-77186-1 (alk. paper)

1. XML (Document markup language) 2. Java (Computer program language) I. Title.

QA76.76.H94 H337 2003

005.7'2dc21

2002028190

Copyright 2003 by Elliotte Rusty Harold

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In memory of all the victims of the attacks on September 11, 2001