JAXP tools

In this page we summarize the XML tools we have built in this section using JAXP. All tools but XMLTrans use the error handler ValidHandler; XMLTrans uses the error handler TransHandler:

SAXValid

A DTD validating parser based on SAX. Usage is:

java SAXValid document.xml

The DTD must be specificed in the XML document using a DTD declaration.

DOMValid

A DTD validating parser based on DOM. Usage is:

java DOMValid document.xml

The DTD must be specificed in the XML document using a DTD declaration.

XMLValid

A W3C Schema validating parser. Works with stream, SAX and DOM input sources. Usage is:

java XMLValid -s (stream|sax|dom) document.xml [schema.xsd]

The schema can be specificed either from command line or in the XML document using a xsi:schemaLocation attribute. Option -s specifies how the XML instance document should be read: as a stream of text (stream), as a stream of events (sax) or as a node tree (dom).

XMLTrans

An XSLT processor. Usage is:

java XMLTrans document.xml stylesheet.xsl

XPathEval

An XPath processor. Usage is:

java XPathEval query -r (nodeset|string|number|boolean) document.xml

where query is a string with the query and the -r option specifies the query result type. It returns the query result in XML format.