XML Companion, The, Third Edition

SAX 1.0 methods

The following table shows all the methods in the SAX API, in alphabetical order, the interfaces or classes they are defined in, the parameters they take and their return values:

Method	Interface/Class	Parameters	Return value
characters	DocumentHandler	char ch[], int start, int length	void
endDocument	DocumentHandler		void
endElement	DocumentHandler		void
error	ErrorHandler	SAXParseException err	void
fatalError	ErrorHandler	SAXParseException err	void
getByteStream	InputSource	InputStream byteStream	InputStream
getCharacterStream	InputSource	Reader charStream	Reader
getColumnNumber	Locator		int
getEncoding	InputSource		String
getLength	AttributeList		int
getLineNumber	Locator		int
getName	AttributeList	int i	String
getPublicId ...