Inside XML

Displaying an Entire Document

In this next example, as in the previous chapter, I'm going to write a program that parses and displays an entire document, indenting each element, processing instruction, and so on, as well as displaying attributes and their values. Here, however, I'll use SAX methods, not DOM methods. If you pass customer.xml to this program, which I'll call IndentingParserSAX.java, the program will display the whole document properly indented.

I start by letting the user specify what document to parse and then parsing that document as before. To actually parse the document, I'll call a new method, displayDocument, from the main method. The displayDocument method will fill the array displayStrings with the formatted document, ...