Java tutorial
import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser; import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory; import org.xml.sax.Attributes; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler; public class TrySAX extends DefaultHandler { public static void main(String args[]) { if (args.length == 0) { System.out.println("No file to process. Usage is:" + "\njava TrySAX <filename>"); return; } File xmlFile = new File(args[0]); handler = new TrySAX(); handler.process(xmlFile); } private void process(File file) { 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"); try { parser = spf.newSAXParser(); System.out.println("Parser object is: " + parser); } catch (SAXException e) { e.printStackTrace(System.err); System.exit(1); } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { e.printStackTrace(System.err); System.exit(1); } System.out.println("\nStarting parsing of " + file + "\n"); try { parser.parse(file, this); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(System.err); } catch (SAXException e) { e.printStackTrace(System.err); } } 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)); } private static TrySAX handler = null; private SAXParser parser = null; }