Chapter 5. Taking Orders: Manipulating Data with JDOM
In this chapter
What Is JDOM?
Installing JDOM
Developing an Algorithm
Creating the Shopping Cart—AddToOrder.java
Manipulating an XSL Style Sheet
Next Steps
In the last chapter, we talked briefly about Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Simply put, an API is a set of commands that a program understands. If you try speaking English to someone who understands only French, you're not going to get anywhere. Similarly, if you try to use commands that are outside a program's API, you're not going to accomplish anything.
In the XML world, a number of APIs are vying for attention, all of which are in various stages of acceptance and best suited for different purposes.
The first XML-related API was ...
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