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What is XML? Example explanation of xml

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  1. What is XML

  2. Parsing XML

    1. Two ways to parse XML

    2. Use dom4j to parse xml

      1. Part of the API of dom4j

      2. Print the entire content of an XML file

    3. Applying XPath to parse XML in dom4j

      1. Related part of the API

      2. XPath path expression

      3. Wildcard

      4. Predicate

  3. Write an XML file using java

    1. Parse a List collection with book information into an XML file

  4. The difference between Schema and DTD

  5. Reference article

1 What is XML

XML (eXtensible markup language) is an extensible markup language, even The language of labels can be customized.

2 Parsing XML

2.1 Two ways of parsing

XML parsing is divided into two ways, namely SAX and DOM.

DOM: (Document Object Model) is a way of processing XML recommended by the W3C organization. Using this method to parse XML documents will construct a tree structure in memory according to the hierarchical relationship between all elements in the document. Therefore, it puts a lot of pressure on memory and is slow to parse and read. The advantage is that it can traverse and modify the contents of nodes.

SAX: (Simple API for XML) is an alternative to XML parsing. Compared with DOM, the parsing speed is faster and the memory pressure is less; the disadvantage is that the content of the node cannot be modified.

2.2 Use dom4j to parse XML

Before using dom4j to parse XML, you need to import relevant tool packages, such as the author's: dom4j-1.6.1.jar Package

2.2.1 dom4j API

//创建SAXReader,是dom4j包提供的解析器SAXReader reader=new SAXReader();//读取指定的文件Document doc=reader.read(new File(filename));

Document
  Document getRootElement()           用于获取根元素

Element
  Element element(String name)        获取元素下指定名称的子元素
  List<element> elements()            获取元素下所有的子元素
  String getName()                    获取元素名
  String getText()                    获取元素文本内容
  String elementText(String name)     获取子元素文本内容
  Attribute attribute(String)         获取元素的属性
  String attributeValue(String name)  获取元素的属性值

Attribute
  String getName()                    获取属性的名字
  String getValue()                   获取属性的值</element>

The pricties.xml file is located directly under the project

<?xml  version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><books>
  <book><name>三国演绎</name><author>罗贯中</author><price>58.8</price>
  </book>
  <book><name>水浒传</name><author>施耐庵</author><price>49.8</price>
  </book>
  <book><name>西游记</name><author>吴承恩</author><price>100.1</price><order>1</order>
  </book></books>
pricties.xml
import java.io.File;import java.util.List;import org.dom4j.Attribute;import org.dom4j.Document;import org.dom4j.Element;import org.dom4j.io.SAXReader;public class ParseXML {public static void main(String[] args) {//创建SAXReader对象SAXReader saxr=new SAXReader();
        Document  docu=null;try{//读取指定的文件,相对于项目路径docu=saxr.read(new File("pricties.xml"));//获得元素的文件的根节点Element e=docu.getRootElement();
            
            searchAllElement(e);
        }catch(Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }    public static void searchAllElement(Element e){//获得当前元素下的所有子元素,并存储到集合中List<element> elements=e.elements();
        
        System.out.print(" atrs=e.attributes();//打印该标记下的所有属性for(Attribute att:atrs){
            System.out.print(" "+att.getName()+"=\""+att.getValue()+"\"");
        }
        System.out.println(">");        //如果集合的大小为0,表示该集合下没有子元素了if(elements.size()==0){
            System.out.println(e.getText());//打印文本信息System.out.println(""+e.getName()+">");//打印结束标记return;//退出当前层方法        }        //递归每一个子元素for(Element ele:elements){
            searchAllElement(ele);
        }
        System.out.println(""+e.getName()+">");//打印结束标记    }

}</element>
parseXML.xml

2.3 Apply XPath to parse XML in dom4j

First, you need to introduce the corresponding jar package based on dom4j, such as the reader's: jaxen-1.1-beta-6. jar

2.3.1 XPath API

Document
  List<node> selectNodes(String xpath)
  Node selectSingleNode(String xpath)</node>

2.3.2 XPath的路径表达式

2.3.2.1 XPath的路径表达式规则

2.3.2.2 XPath的路径表达式应用案例

2.3.3 通配符

2.3.3.1 通配符规则

2.3.3.2 通配符应用案例

2.3.4 谓语

2.3.4.1 谓语规则

谓语是用来查找某个特定的节点或是包含某个指定的值的节点
谓语被嵌在方括号中

2.3.4.2 谓语应用案例

3 java写XML文件

3.1 将一个带有书籍信息的List集合解析为XML文件

package com.xdl.xml;public class Book {private String name;private String author;private String price;public Book() {super();
    }public Book(String name, String author, String price) {super();
        setName(name);
        setAuthor(author);
        setPrice(price);
    }/** * @return the name     */public String getName() {return name;
    }/** * @param name the name to set     */public void setName(String name) {this.name = name;
    }/** * @return the author     */public String getAuthor() {return author;
    }/** * @param author the author to set     */public void setAuthor(String author) {this.author = author;
    }/** * @return the price     */public String getPrice() {return price;
    }/** * @param price the price to set     */public void setPrice(String price) {this.price = price;
    }
}
Book.java
package com.xdl.xml;import java.io.File;import java.io.FileNotFoundException;import java.io.FileOutputStream;import java.io.IOException;import java.util.ArrayList;import java.util.List;import org.dom4j.Document;import org.dom4j.DocumentHelper;import org.dom4j.Element;import org.dom4j.io.XMLWriter;public class WriteXML {public static void main(String[] args) {//创建一个Book集合用于存储书籍信息List<book> list_books=new ArrayList<book>();//插入书籍信息for(int i=0;i</book></book>
WriteXML.java

 4 Schema和DTD的区别

  Schema是对XML文档结构的定义和描述,其主要的作用是用来约束XML文件,并验证XML文件有效性。DTD的作用是定义XML的合法构建模块,它使用一系列的合法元素来定义文档结构。它们之间的区别有下面几点:

1、Schema本身也是XML文档,DTD定义跟XML没有什么关系,Schema在理解和实际应用有很多的好处。

2、DTD文档的结构是“平铺型”的,如果定义复杂的XML文档,很难把握各元素之间的嵌套关系;Schema文档结构性强,各元素之间的嵌套关系非常直观。

3、DTD只能指定元素含有文本,不能定义元素文本的具体类型,如字符型、整型、日期型、自定义类型等。Schema在这方面比DTD强大。

4、Schema支持元素节点顺序的描述,DTD没有提供无序情况的描述,要定义无序必需穷举排列的所有情况。Schema可以利用xs:all来表示无序的情况。

5、对命名空间的支持。DTD无法利用XML的命名空间,Schema很好满足命名空间。并且,Schema还提供了include和import两种引用命名空间的方法。

5 参考文章

Schema和DTD的区别

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