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Mustard on a SAX-wich: Filter-Feeding a ContentHandler

Now that you can feed a hungry ContentHandler, as we did in the last section, you can let another part of the program call the SAX-wich methods, and then you can just add the mustard to it (or remove the mayonnaise). I'm not totally being facetious here, because there really is a kind of preprocessing that you can do to the XML data as it is being passed to a ContentHandler. In the previous section, you fired SAX events into a ContentHandler class directly, without using a parser. That may be useful in some applications, but a more common scenario involves reading data from an ...