Putting the DOM to Work

In the example discussed in this section, a direct marketing company (ABC Corporation) needs to provides information in an XML format that differs from the format currently used in its structure and semantics.

Listing 9.2 shows a fragment of the DTD for the XML data.

Listing 9.2. This DTD Defines People as the Root Element of a Document Containing Information About a Person
<!ELEMENT People (Person*)> 
    <!ELEMENT Person (FirstName, LastName, Address)> 
        <!ELEMENT FirstName (#PCDATA)> 
        <!ELEMENT LastName (#PCDATA)> 
        <!ELEMENT Address (Street, City, State, ZipCode)> 
            <!ELEMENT Street (#PCDATA)> 
            <!ELEMENT City (#PCDATA)> 
            <!ELEMENT State (#PCDATA)> 
            <!ELEMENT ZipCode (#PCDATA)>

Listing 9.3 shows a sample XML document that could ...

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