what is dtd and dft?

[Amit Angarkar]

what is dtd and dft and how is it used.
where do i get free dom and sax parser
Thanks in Advance

[Marcela Blei]

DTD means: Document Type Definition, you use it to validate that your XML file has the elements that you define in your DTD. Is like a dictionary. Supose that you make a java program that parses XML files, and you need the value of specific elements, but you don�t write the xml file, that�s the job of other people in your company, so giving them a DTD you ensure that the syntaxis of the xml they gave to you for parsing them with your java program doesn�t have mistakes. For more info go here

where do i get free dom and sax parser

DOM
SAX
Here you will find articles and links for downloading parsers.

[Ajith Kallambella]

XML is the data and DTD is the meta-data. DTD is a blueprint of an XML document and the document is sometimes called 'an instance' of the DTD.
I should point out here, that DTD is a cryptic and an old standard which is becoming unpopular because of its limitations. It is going to get replaced by another metadata schema called 'XML Schema'.
I have no clue though, about 'dtf'. Anyone?

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Ajith Kallambella M.
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java2 Platform.

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