XML Companion, The, Third Edition

The parser

The parser developer creates a class that parses the XML document or data stream. This parser class implements the Parser interface, which defines the following methods:

void  parse(InputSource src)
                 throws SAXException, IOException;
void  parse(String src)
                 throws SAXException, IOException;

void  setDocumentHandler(DocumentHandler doch);
void  setErrorHandler(ErrorHandler errh);
void  setDTDHandler(DTDHandler dtdh);
void  setEntityResolver(EntityResolver entres);
void  setLocale(Locale loc) throws SAXException;

Note that in SAX 2.0, while this interface is still available, it is superseded by the XMLReader interface, which mainly adds a standard model for getting and setting parser features and properties.

These methods fall into two groups. ...