Parse a xml file with SAX parser in Java

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import java.io.StringReader;

import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
public class Main{
  public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
    SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
    spf.setNamespaceAware(true);
    spf.setValidating(true);
    System.out.println("Parser will " + (spf.isNamespaceAware() ? "" : "not ")+ "be namespace aware");
    System.out.println("Parser will " + (spf.isValidating() ? "" : "not ") + "validate XML");
    SAXParser parser = spf.newSAXParser();
    System.out.println("Parser object is: " + parser);
    
    
    XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader();
    
    reader.setErrorHandler(new MyErrorHandler());
    parser.parse("a.xml", new MySAXHandler());
  }
}
class MyErrorHandler implements ErrorHandler {
  public void warning(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException {
    show("Warning", e);
    throw (e);
  }

  public void error(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException {
    show("Error", e);
    throw (e);
  }

  public void fatalError(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException {
    show("Fatal Error", e);
    throw (e);
  }

  private void show(String type, SAXParseException e) {
    System.out.println(type + ": " + e.getMessage());
    System.out.println("Line " + e.getLineNumber() + " Column " + e.getColumnNumber());
    System.out.println("System ID: " + e.getSystemId());
  }
}
class MySAXHandler extends DefaultHandler {
  public void startDocument() {
    System.out.println("Start document: ");
  }

  public void endDocument() {
    System.out.println("End document: ");
  }

  public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qname, Attributes attr) {
    System.out.println("Start element: local name: " + localName + " qname: " + qname + " uri: "
        + uri);
  }

  public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qname) {
    System.out.println("End element: local name: " + localName + " qname: " + qname + " uri: "
        + uri);
  }

  public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) {
    System.out.println("Characters: " + new String(ch, start, length));
  }

  public void ignorableWhitespace(char[] ch, int start, int length) {
    System.out.println("Ignorable whitespace: " + new String(ch, start, length));
  }
}