[JDEV] Question on using NIO with SAX

[Iain Shigeoka]

On 3/21/02 5:16 PM, "David Waite" <mass at akuma.org> wrote:

> This is an issue with the SAX Api (which understandably, we can't
> change). What you want is a push-model parser (like SAX) which takes a
> block of bytes/characters and calls events on the DocumentHandler (on
> that thread) until that block of data has been processed, then returns
> or saves the remainder until the next time it is passed.  SAX does not
> define this, and anything which does this at least is extending SAX.

Yeah.  The best bet is probably to tweak the SAX parser to behave this way.
I have no idea how hard this is in Xerces.  A smaller parser like J Clark's
XP parser http://www.jclark.com/xml/xp/index.html may be easier to work with
being that it is a LOT smaller.

-iain


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