XML by Example

Parser defines the following methods:

•

parse() starts parsing an XML document. There are two versions of

parse()—one accepts a filename or a URL, the other an InputSource

object (see section “InputSource”).

• setDocumentHandler(), setDTDHandler(), setEntityResolver(), and

setErrorHandler() allow the application to register event handlers.

• setLocale() requests error messages in a specific Locale.

ParserFactory

ParserFactory creates the parser object. It takes the class name for the

parser. For XML for Java, it is com.ibm.xml.parsers.SAXParser. To switch

to another parser, you can change one line and recompile:

protected static final String

PARSER_NAME ...