Other Core Features of SAX
Although the parts of SAX that you've seen so far are clearly useful for getting work done, most applications will use a slightly richer feature set.
More Ways to Use Parser.parse()
Robust applications need more flexibility about how they provide data to a parser, and in particular about error handling, than has been illustrated in the preceding basic programming interfaces. SAX offers such flexibility.
Parsing from an InputSource
You've seen the first, and most common, way to invoke a parser—pass it a URI. The second way to tell a SAX Parser to parse a document is to describe the document using an InputSource object (InputSource objects will be discussed in detail later in this chapter). You create and configure ...
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