[JDEV] <x> xml in jabberbeans

[Benjamin H Szekely]

Here is the meat and potatoes of the serializing handler:

     /**
      * This is an exact copy of the start element in the main handler.
      *
      * @param name string that holds the element name
      * @param attributes AttributeList of attributes going with this
element
      * @exception SAXException thrown on error (unexpected element)
      */
     public void handleStartElement(String name, AttributeList attributes)
     throws SAXException
     {
     accumulated.append('<');
     accumulated.append(name);
     for (int i = 0; i<attributes.getLength();i++)
     {
         accumulated.append(' ');
         accumulated.append(attributes.getName(i));
         accumulated.append('=');
         accumulated.append('\"');
         accumulated.append(attributes.getValue(i));
         accumulated.append('\"');
     }
     accumulated.append('>');
     }


What if change to:  (escaping the bad values)

          /**
      * This is an exact copy of the start element in the main handler.
      *
      * @param name string that holds the element name
      * @param attributes AttributeList of attributes going with this
element
      * @exception SAXException thrown on error (unexpected element)
      */
     public void handleStartElement(String name, AttributeList attributes)
     throws SAXException
     {
     accumulated.append('<');
     accumulated.append(name);
     for (int i = 0; i<attributes.getLength();i++)
     {
         accumulated.append(' ');
         accumulated.append(XMLData.escapeString(attributes.getName(i)));
         accumulated.append('=');
         accumulated.append('\"');
         accumulated.append(XMLData.escapeString(attributes.getValue(i)));
         accumulated.append('\"');
     }
     accumulated.append('>');
     }

We could make a similar modification in the charaters() function:

                        /**
      * This is an exact copy of the characters function in the main
handler
      *
      * @param ch character string detected
      * @param start start position
      * @param length length of string
      * @exception SAXException thrown on error
      */
     public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
     throws SAXException
     {
     accumulated.append(XMLData.escapeString(new String(ch,start,length)));
     }

All of this string manipulation seems very innefficient..I guess the lesson
of the day is try to use the sax parser to parse your xml...

Ben