Just Java™ 2

A Program That Uses a SAX Parser

This section walks through a code example of a SAX parser. Because we have already covered much of the background, it will seem shorter than the DOM example. Don't be fooled. The general skeleton of the code is as follows.

// import statements: see belowpublic class MySAXEcho extends DefaultSAXHandler {    main(String[] args) {      // get a Parser      // register my callbacks, and parse the file    }    // my routines that get called back    public void startDocument() { /*code...*/}    public void startElement( /*code...*/    public void characters ( /*code...*/    public void endElement(  /*code...*/}

The first part of the program, the import statements, looks like this:

import java.io.*;import org.xml.sax.*; ...