One way of enforcing structural requirements for an XML document is by using a document type description (DTD). In this article, we'll briefly touch on the shortcomings of DTDs and discuss the ...

To enforce structure requirements for an XML document, you have to turn to one of XML's attendant technologies, data type definition (DTD). And that's the subject of this article.

Despite the wide adoption of the Document Object Model (DOM) and the Simple API for XML (SAX), enterprise developers face the numerous shortcomings of these technologies almost daily. Performance ...

Digester is often used to parse XML configuration files. In the following examples, we have an XML configuration file that contains information used to build a DataSources pool.

Every XML has a schema. The schema is the structure of the XML file and how it should laid out. It's not mandatory but you can always create a schema definition file known as a XSD file to validate ...