DOM for Web Services, Part 3

(Faheem Khan) In this third and final article of this series I demonstrate the use of Xerces, which is the most popular Java-based implementation of DOM. In this article's first section I develop a couple of Java classes that can create and process SOAP messages. This will demonstrate the basic DOM features of Xerces. In the second section I demonstrate the use of some other important features, including:

--Working with multiple XML documents in which you need to import XML nodes from one document into another.
--The use of Xerces to generate DOM events, and writing your own event handlers to handle the events generated.
--The use of DOM range and DOM document fragments. The DOM range specification provides an easy to use method for grouped processing of several XML nodes.