Setting the environment

In this chapter we shall load, save, and filter an XML document using the DOM 3 Load and Save API. The example XML document, catalog.xml, is listed as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?><!--A Oracle Magazine Catalog-->
<catalog publisher="Oracle Publishing" title="Oracle Magazine">
<journal date="March-April 2008">
<article section="Oracle Developer">
<title>Declarative Data Filtering</title>
<author>Steve Muench</author>
</article>
</journal>
<journal date="May-June 2008">
<article section="ORACLE DEVELOPER">
<title>On the PGA and Indexing Collections</title>
<author>Steven Feuerstein</author>
</article>
</journal>
</catalog>

We need to create a JDeveloper application (DOM3LS) and a project (DOM3LS) by selecting File|New and subsequently selecting Categories|General and Items|Generic Application in the New Gallery window. Add...