Module java.xml

Defines the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP), the Streaming API for XML (StAX), the Simple API for XML (SAX), and the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) API.

Packages

Exported Packages

Package	Description
javax.xml
javax.xml.catalog	Provides the classes for implementing XML Catalogs OASIS Standard V1.1, 7 October 2005.
javax.xml.datatype	XML/Java Type Mappings.
javax.xml.namespace	XML Namespace processing.
javax.xml.parsers	Provides classes allowing the processing of XML documents.
javax.xml.stream
javax.xml.stream.events
javax.xml.stream.util
javax.xml.transform	This package defines the generic APIs for processing transformation instructions, and performing a transformation from source to result.
javax.xml.transform.dom	This package implements DOM-specific transformation APIs.
javax.xml.transform.sax	This package implements SAX2-specific transformation APIs.
javax.xml.transform.stax	Provides for StAX-specific transformation APIs.
javax.xml.transform.stream	This package implements stream- and URI- specific transformation APIs.
javax.xml.validation	This package provides an API for validation of XML documents.
javax.xml.xpath	This package provides an object-model neutral API for the evaluation of XPath expressions and access to the evaluation environment.
org.w3c.dom	Provides the interfaces for the Document Object Model (DOM).
org.w3c.dom.bootstrap
org.w3c.dom.events
org.w3c.dom.ls
org.w3c.dom.ranges	Document Object Model Level 2 Traversal and Range is a platform and language-neutral interfaces that allow programs and scripts to dynamically traverse and identify a range of content in a document.
org.w3c.dom.traversal
org.w3c.dom.views
org.xml.sax	This package provides the core SAX APIs.
org.xml.sax.ext	This package contains interfaces to SAX2 facilities that conformant SAX drivers won't necessarily support.
org.xml.sax.helpers	This package contains "helper" classes, including support for bootstrapping SAX-based applications.

Services

Uses

Type	Description
DatatypeFactory	Factory that creates new javax.xml.datatype Objects that map XML to/from Java Objects.
DocumentBuilderFactory	Defines a factory API that enables applications to obtain a parser that produces DOM object trees from XML documents.
SAXParserFactory	Defines a factory API that enables applications to configure and obtain a SAX based parser to parse XML documents.
SchemaFactory	Factory that creates Schema objects.
TransformerFactory	A TransformerFactory instance can be used to create Transformer and Templates objects.
XMLEventFactory	This interface defines a utility class for creating instances of XMLEvents
XMLInputFactory	Defines an abstract implementation of a factory for getting streams.
XMLOutputFactory	Defines an abstract implementation of a factory for getting XMLEventWriters and XMLStreamWriters.
XMLReader	Interface for reading an XML document using callbacks.
XPathFactory	An XPathFactory instance can be used to create XPath objects.