XML by Example

Cheapest cheapest = new Cheapest();

// ...

parser.setDocumentHandler(cheapest);

DocumentHandler declares events related to the document. The following

events are available:

• startDocument()/endDocument() notify the application of the docu-

ment’s beginning or ending.

•

startElement()/endElement() notify the application that an element

starts or ends (which corresponds to the opening and closing tags

of the element). Attributes are passed as an AttributeList; see

the section “AttributeList” that follows. Empty elements (<img

href=”logo.gif”/>) generate both startElement and endElement

events even though there is only one tag.

• characters()/ignorableWhitespace() ...