Chapter 11: Parsing XML

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Overview

On the desktop and in the enterprise, Java and XML is a winning combination. In brief, Java is portable code and XML is portable data. Developing in Java gives you the ability to deploy code on many different platforms, while XML supplies a highly portable data format for exchanging data between application components and applications themselves.

XML's popularity is sure to reach into the J2ME world. This chapter describes XML parsers that are available for MIDP environments. This is fun stuff, right at the raw edge of J2ME development. MIDP is new enough that things like XML parsers haven't been fully ported to the platform, and you will probably have to mess around with the source code for these parsers to get them to run.

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