The J2EE™ Tutorial Second Edition

Echoing an XML File with the SAX Parser

In real life, you will have little need to echo an XML file with a SAX parser. Usually, you'll want to process the data in some way in order to do something useful with it. (If you want to echo it, it's easier to build a DOM tree and use that for output.) But echoing an XML structure is a great way to see the SAX parser in action, and it can be useful for debugging.

In this exercise, you'll echo SAX parser events to System.out. Consider it the “Hello World” version of an XML-processing program. It shows you how to use the SAX parser to get at the data and then echoes it to show you what you have.

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The code discussed in this section is in Echo01.java. The file it operates on is slideSample01.xml, as ...