The Sixth Week: July 9 - July 13

Summary:

For the first part of this week, I concentrated on the job of how to package metacontents with components. We came up with a few different design options, picked one, and used it to develop a simple model of a tool with which to access the metacontents through the component.

Once I had finished that basic framework, the next thing was to incorporate the XML documents into it. We decided to use DOMs (Document Object Models) to represent and manipulate the XML documents in the Java code, so I started in on the (long!) tutorials for the SAX parser and DOMs.

Resources:

Manipulating XML with Java: java.sun.com/xml