Using XML Tools CS551 – Fall 2001

Tools available: XML Notepad Jcreator IBM XML4J Xalan

XML Notepad: Editor to create well-formed xml documents, xml schema, xsl stylesheets. Available: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxml/html/xmlpaddownload.asp Can insert element, child element, attributes, comment, and text nodes. Does not create DTDs or insert PI, CDATA (use regular notepad or Peter’s XML editor 1.1).

Open XML Notepad in your Start Bar. Enter the information below: Save as ‘simple.xml’ Open ‘simple.xml’ in Internet Explorer.

Jcreator 1.5: Fully-functional Java IDE. Available: http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10085-100-2729088.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.2729088 Set classpath to c:\jdk1.3.1: Configure -> Options -> JDK Profiles -> select ‘JDK version 1.3.1’ -> Edit -> Home path (…) -> select path c:\jdk1.3.1 To run/execute project with command-line arguments: Project -> Project Settings -> JDK Tools -> Select tool type: Run Application -> select <Default> -> Edit -> Parameters -> set “Prompt for main function argument” checkbox to ‘True’.

IBM XML4J 3.2.1: A validating XML parser written in 100% pure Java that contains classes and methods for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. Available: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xml4j Current version supports up to DOM level 2, SAX 2.0, xml schema recommendation, and JAXP 1.1. Includes Xerces –Jv.1.4.1 .jar file. To use the classes in XML4J, you must set your Java CLASSPATH variable so that Java can locate the xerces.jar and xercesSamples.jar files: (in Jcreator) Configure -> Options -> JDK Profiles -> select JDK version -> Edit -> Add Package -> add c:/xml4j-j-bin.3.2.1/xerces.jar and c:/xml4j-j-bin.3.2.1/xercesSamples.jar

Running the ‘TreeViewer’ sample: (in Jcreator) File -> New –> Empty Project -> Project name: “treeviewer” In Workspace window (top left) -> select “treeviewer” project -> right click -> Add Files -> add the following files from c:\xml4j-j-bin.3.2.1\samples\ui\ (TreeView.java, TreeViewer.java, DOMTree.java, and DefaultImages.java). Build -> Compile Project Copy your file ‘simple.xml’ into your treeviewer project directory. Build -> Execute Project -> Set Run Configuration -> Ok -> Set main function argument -> type “simple.xml” -> Ok See more samples at c:\xml4j-j-bin.3.2.1\docs\html\samples.html

Apache Xalan 1.5: Xalan is an XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. Available: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html Current version supports W3C XSLT 1.0 and Xpath 1.0 recommendations. Includes Xerces –Jv.1.4.3 .jar file. To set the classpath in Jcreator: Configure -> Options -> JDK Profiles -> select JDK version -> Edit -> Delete -> c:\xml4j-j-bin.3.2.1\xerces.jar Add -> c:\xalan-j_2_2_D10\bin\xalan.jar Add -> c:\xalan-j_2_2_D10\bin\xerces.jar

Running a XSL transformation: Download my sample xsl stylesheet from: http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/~qchong/simple.xsl (in Jcreator) File -> New –> Empty Project -> Project name: “transform” In Workspace window (top left) -> select “transform” project -> right click -> Add Files -> add c:\xalan-j-2_2_D10\samples\SimpleTransform\SimpleTranform.java Build -> Compile Project Copy your file ‘simple.xml’ and ‘simple.xsl’ into your transform project directory. Build -> Execute Project -> Set Run Configuration -> Ok -> Set main function argument -> type “simple.xsl simple.xml simple.html” -> Ok See more samples at c:\xalan-j-2_2_D10\samples\