In this tutorial we will step through this little understood area of XML processing. Java XML Filters are part of the SAX API for XML processing. Java XML filters are objects that can filter (or process) data within a pipeline of filters, wrapped around a core XML processing application. The SAX API is a standard part of the JAXP (Java API for XML Processing), which has itself been provided as part of the Java environment since Java 2 SDK 1.4.0 and can be used in a wide range of XML processing applications.
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