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> You set processingField2 to true in startElement when you hit <field2> > and to false in endElement when you hit </field2>. When processingField2 > is true, you do the following: > > a) in startElement, append the element tag to the StringBuffer. For > example: > > field2Content.append("<"); > field2Content.append(qname); > field2Content.append(...); // append attributes > field2Content.append(">"); > > b) in characters and ignorableWhitespace, append the character values. > c) in endElement, append the closing tag (similar to (a)) This procedure will produce a broken XML, because SAX turns > & < " and ' things into > & < " ' symbols, so the accurate processing should turn the symbols back to entities. & should become & < should be come > e t,.c This usually takes place in endElement > For more detailed code in answer to a similar question, see: > > http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200111/msg00476.html The 'detailed' code has the same problem. > How to generalize this is left as an exercise to the reader :) You might > also be able to simplify things by using an XMLWriter class, such as > that available from www.megginson.com. (I haven't looked at that class, > so I'm not sure exactly how it works.) I think it does the encoding described above, for example. I'd say that "how can you read XML document and write it back unchanged" is a nice question for "XML certification" Tee-hee. The correct answer is "It is impossible, but in the case you are asking about keeping the infoset, there are several problems, such as ... " XML is 'simple' ? Most of the 'XML producing' code on the planet is broken when first released ... Rgds.Paul.
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