World-renowned, best-selling author Elliotte Rusty Harold teaches Java programmers how to put XML to work! Author is uniquely qualified to write this book! He is the author of numerous well-received books on Java and has written two of the best-selling books on XML. This is the book that brings his skills together. Harold has a fantastic reputation, is a skilled writer, and has excellent publicity channels. A complete guide to writing Java programs that read and write XML documents. Java is the ideal language for processing XML documents. Consequently, more XML tools have been written in Java than in any other language. More open source XML tools are written in Java than in any other language. Processing XML with Java fills an immediate need for developers who are working with XML in Java. It is a comprehensive tutorial and reference to the major APIs. This book shows developers how to- save XML documents from their applications written in Java; read XML documents produced by other programs; communicate with network servers that send and receive XML data; validate documents they receive against DTDs, schemas, and business rules; and integrate XSLT into their programs.