Necessary Previous Knowledge
This guide was made to users interested in use JColtraine in their aplication. It is suposed that the reader has basic knowledge about JAVA Annotation (knowing annoted methods and parameters is enough). So, if you are not familiar with these concepts, it is recommended to take a look at JAVA Annotation documentation.
Once JColtraine is used for parsing XML documents in JAVA, it is suposed, of course, that user knows about XML and JAVA language.
Although JColtrane uses SAX in background, it's not necessary previous knowledge about it to understand this guide. Though, users that know SAX will understand deeply the comparations between the aproaches and take your own conclusions about it.
Thus, if you are secure about topics above, try the next content.