Overview

Woodstox
is a very powerful toolkit for XML processing.Its main features are as follows:

• Namespace aware StAX (Streaming API for XML) compliant (JSR-173) processor
• Support for DTD, RelaxNG and W3C Validations
• Support for both XML parsing and XML creation
• SAX (Simple API for XML) parsing and validation
• High performance processor with excellant error handling support

Woodstox StAX based implementation is ‘Pull Parser’ which loads the chunks of XML for processing instead of loading the entire document. Hence it is very efficient for processing of high volume XML.

Diagrammatic representation of StAX API
provides an overview of key abstractions.

Before trying out the sample programs, see
Understanding Steps in Loading of Woodstox classes

The list of jars required to run the sample programs below is listed
here

Sample Programs

The following is a list of sample programs to showcase the various features of Woodstox:

StAX (Streaming API for XML) Parsing

• Basic StAX Parsing
• Replace Entity Reference
• Peek to Next Element
• Read Attribute Of XML Element
• Read Namespace Of XML Start Element
• Verify Empty Element Content
• Coalesce CDATA

StAX XML Generation

• Generate XML Using StAX
• Bind Namespace Prefix and URI During XML Generation Using StAX

XML Validation

• Validate against DTD
• Validate against XML Schema
• Validate against RelaxNG Schema
• Validate XML generated by Woodstox

Exception Handling

• Handling Exceptions Related to Mal-Formed XML
• Exploring Validation Errors Using ValidationProblem
• Handling Warnings

Woodstox Configuration

• Configuring Woodstox For High Speed
• Configuring Woodstox For Low Memory Usage
• Other Settings

SAX (Simple API for XML)

• SAX Parsing

Libraries used to run the sample programs

• msv-core-2010.2.jar
• org.osgi.core-4.2.0.jar
• stax2-api-3.1.1.jar
• woodstox-core-asl-4.2.0.jar
• woodstox-core-lgpl-4.2.0.jar
• woodstox-msv-rng-datatype-20020414.jar
• xsdlib-2010.1.jar