Through this book, developers will learn how to work quickly and efficiently with the Oracle XML Developer Kit (XDK 11g). This kit offers a set of components, tools, and utilities for developing XML-based applications. This book shows how to create,format, compare and store XML documents. Developers will be taught how to construct an XML schema and use the schema to validate an XML document. They will be able to convert XML to Excel and PDF formats, store XML in Oracle Berkeley DB XML, and create Oracle XML Publisher Reports. The users will gain an understanding of JAXP, XPath, XSLT, JAXB 2.0, DOM 3.0, and the JSTL XML Tag Library through this book. Java developers wanting to work with XML documents using JDeveloper 11g will find this book useful.