Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX

Input

Once you've got an instance of XMLReader, you're going to want to parse some documents with it. There are two methods that do this:

public void parse (String systemID) throws SAXException 

public void parse (InputSource in) throws SAXException

In the last chapter you learned how these methods call back to the client application. What I want to look at now is how the document is fed into the parser.

The parse() method takes either a String containing a system ID or an InputSource object as an argument. An InputSource is a wrapper for the various kinds of input streams and readers from which an XML document can be read. If a system ID is passed to the parse() method, then it's used to construct a new InputSource object that can be passed ...