Parsing content with SAX API

Thu May 13 12:12:52 BST 1999

Mi-Jeong Koo writes:

 > ...
 > <BOOK>Rainmaker : John Grisham</BOOK>
 > ...
 > 
 > 
 > Is there any SAX API function to get the content, 'Rainmaker : John
 > Grisham'?

Once you have created a class implementing DocumentHandler,
instantiated it, and registered it with the Parser, and initiated the
parse, then your handler will receive callbacks.  Here's a simplified
version:

  start document
  start element: "BOOK"
  characters: "Rainmaker : John Grisham"
  end element: "BOOK"
  end document

Actually, a SAX parser is free to chunk up characters any which way,
so you might end up with

  start document
  start element: "BOOK"
  characters: "Rainmaker"
  characters: " "
  characters: ":"
  characters: " "
  characters: "John"
  characters: " "
  characters: "Grisham"
  end element: "BOOK"
  end document

Or even more extremely, one callback for each character.

All the best,

David

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David Megginson                 david at megginson.com
           http://www.megginson.com/

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