Features and Properties
SAX parsers, that is, XMLReader objects, are configured by setting features and properties. A feature has a boolean true/false value. A property has an object value. Both features and properties are named by absolute URIs. This allows just a handful of standard methods to support an arbitrary number of standard and nonstandard features and properties of various types.
Features and properties can be read-only, write-only (rare), or read-write. If you attempt to change a read-only feature or property, then a SAXNotSupportedException, a subclass of SAXException, is thrown. The accessibility of a feature or property can change depending on whether or not the XMLReader is currently parsing a document. For example, you can turn ...
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