The following is an example of how to use a SAX parser to parse XML
Create a class called SAXAllDocer. You can use another name, but be sure to rename all occurences inside the file.
/**
*
*/
package com.example.saxparser;
import java.io.FileReader;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
public class SAXAllDocer extends DefaultHandler {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
XMLReader xr = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
SAXAllDocer handler = new SAXAllDocer();
xr.setContentHandler(handler);
xr.setErrorHandler(handler);
// Parse each file provided on the
// command line.
for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
FileReader r = new FileReader(args[i]);
xr.parse(new InputSource(r));
}
}
public SAXAllDocer() {
super();
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Event handlers.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public void startDocument() {
System.out.println("Start document");
}
public void endDocument() {
System.out.println("End document");
}
public void startElement(String uri, String name, String qName, Attributes atts) {
if ("".equals(uri))
System.out.println("Start element: " + qName);
else
System.out.println("Start element: {" + uri + "}" + name);
}
public void endElement(String uri, String name, String qName) {
if ("".equals(uri))
System.out.println("End element: " + qName);
else
System.out.println("End element: {" + uri + "}" + name);
}
public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) {
System.out.print("Characters: \"");
for (int i = start; i < start + length; i++) {
switch (ch[i]) {
case '\\':
System.out.print("\\\\");
break;
case '"':
System.out.print("\\\"");
break;
case '\n':
System.out.print("\\n");
break;
case '\r':
System.out.print("\\r");
break;
case '\t':
System.out.print("\\t");
break;
default:
System.out.print(ch[i]);
break;
}
}
System.out.print("\"\n");
}
}
*
*/
package com.example.saxparser;
import java.io.FileReader;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
public class SAXAllDocer extends DefaultHandler {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
XMLReader xr = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
SAXAllDocer handler = new SAXAllDocer();
xr.setContentHandler(handler);
xr.setErrorHandler(handler);
// Parse each file provided on the
// command line.
for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
FileReader r = new FileReader(args[i]);
xr.parse(new InputSource(r));
}
}
public SAXAllDocer() {
super();
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Event handlers.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
public void startDocument() {
System.out.println("Start document");
}
public void endDocument() {
System.out.println("End document");
}
public void startElement(String uri, String name, String qName, Attributes atts) {
if ("".equals(uri))
System.out.println("Start element: " + qName);
else
System.out.println("Start element: {" + uri + "}" + name);
}
public void endElement(String uri, String name, String qName) {
if ("".equals(uri))
System.out.println("End element: " + qName);
else
System.out.println("End element: {" + uri + "}" + name);
}
public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) {
System.out.print("Characters: \"");
for (int i = start; i < start + length; i++) {
switch (ch[i]) {
case '\\':
System.out.print("\\\\");
break;
case '"':
System.out.print("\\\"");
break;
case '\n':
System.out.print("\\n");
break;
case '\r':
System.out.print("\\r");
break;
case '\t':
System.out.print("\\t");
break;
default:
System.out.print(ch[i]);
break;
}
}
System.out.print("\"\n");
}
}
To use this class, create an xml file such as,
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<poem xmlns="http://www.megginson.com/ns/exp/poetry">
<title>Roses are Red</title>
<l>Roses are red,</l>
<l>Violets are blue;</l>
<l>Sugar is sweet,</l>
<l>And I love you.</l>
</poem>
<poem xmlns="http://www.megginson.com/ns/exp/poetry">
<title>Roses are Red</title>
<l>Roses are red,</l>
<l>Violets are blue;</l>
<l>Sugar is sweet,</l>
<l>And I love you.</l>
</poem>
If this document is named roses.xml and there is a SAX2 driver on your classpath named com.example.xml.SAXDriver (this driver does not actually exist), you can invoke the sample application like this:
$ java -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=com.example.xml.SAXDriver SAXAllDocer roses.xml
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