Introduction

Java XML APIs have been one of the most used APIs in Java world. Still I think most of you would agree with me that there are so many mysteries in it, that even for developers who have been working on them for ages, it is a bit scary. The cumbersome implementations have only multiplied the horrors. But fact of the matter is whether you love or hate them, you need to live with them and use them in the most effective manner to solve the problem at hand while spending minimum of your effort in figuring out ways to parse the XML. In this article I would like to mention few small idiosyncrasies which I had to face while working with XML APIs. I have worked with Xerces and Xalan implementations and therefore my experience is based on these implementations. Continue reading »