Generating XML using SAX and Java [closed]

SAX parsing is for reading documents, not writing them. You can write XML with the XMLStreamWriter: OutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(new File(“doc.xml”)); XMLStreamWriter out = XMLOutputFactory.newInstance().createXMLStreamWriter( new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, “utf-8”)); out.writeStartDocument(); out.writeStartElement(“doc”); out.writeStartElement(“title”); out.writeCharacters(“Document Title”); out.writeEndElement(); out.writeEndElement(); out.writeEndDocument(); out.close();

Is there any XPath processor for SAX model?

My current list (compiled from web search results and the other answers) is: http://code.google.com/p/xpath4sax/ http://spex.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jlibs/wiki/XMLDog (also contains a performance chart) http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/xsq/ (uniersity project, dead since 10 years, GPL) MIT-Licensed approach http://softwareengineeringcorner.blogspot.com/2012/01/conveniently-processing-large-xml-files.html Other parsers/memory models supporting fast XPath: http://vtd-xml.sourceforge.net/ (“The world’s fastest XPath 1.0 implementation.”) http://jaxen.codehaus.org/ (contains http://www.saxpath.org/) http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/sourcedocs/streaming/streamable-xpath.html The next step is to use … Read more

How to stop parsing xml document with SAX at any time?

Create a specialization of a SAXException and throw it (you don’t have to create your own specialization but it means you can specifically catch it yourself and treat other SAXExceptions as actual errors). public class MySAXTerminatorException extends SAXException { … } public void startElement (String namespaceUri, String localName, String qualifiedName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException { … Read more

How to parse XML using the SAX parser

So you want to build a XML parser to parse a RSS feed like this one. <rss version=”0.92″> <channel> <title>MyTitle</title> <link>http://myurl.com</link> <description>MyDescription</description> <lastBuildDate>SomeDate</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://someurl.com</docs> <language>SomeLanguage</language> <item> <title>TitleOne</title> <description><![CDATA[Some text.]]></description> <link>http://linktoarticle.com</link> </item> <item> <title>TitleTwo</title> <description><![CDATA[Some other text.]]></description> <link>http://linktoanotherarticle.com</link> </item> </channel> </rss> Now you have two SAX implementations you can work with. Either you use the org.xml.sax … Read more