XML and Java from Scratch

With the help of XML and Java from scratch, you will build a Web site and application for ChaseWeb Furniture -- a fictitious catalog furniture company. All of the information on products, prices, vendors, and so on, is rendered in XML. You'll learn how to display products on the company Web site, take orders, produce a paper catalog, and communicate with the external databases of vendors using XML. The from scratch format is designed to teach novice programmers the hows and whys of programming in the context of creating a functioning application. Illustrates the principles of XML by building a web site and application for a fictitious catalog furniture company. Chapters cover cascading style sheets, XSL processors, document type definitions, parsers, manipulating vendor data with JDOM, organizing inventory structure with namespaces and DOM, and using Java to access legacy SQL databases in conjunction with XML.