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Re: Ordering in SAX filter

• From: Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@g...>
• To: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:12:42 -0300

I believe I will follow the approach of constructing a JDOM document 
form the sax events. However, I am new to jdom, and couldn't find any 
useful or related tutorial or code that will help me do this. I need to 
create a JDOM from within a SAX filter, or implement this logic as a filter.

can anyone help?


Andrew Welch wrote:
> 2008/5/18 Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@g...>:
>   
>> I need to process some elements in a SAX filter only when a condition
>> occurs. The problem that this condition occurs later, and after all the
>> events for the elements I need to process are fired. For example:
>>     
>
> In the past when I've had this requirement I've either pushed all the
> events onto a stack until the condition comes along, or just parsed
> the document twice.
>
>   
>> I need to know if someone has a better and easier idea ?
>>     
>
> In Java 6 (or StAX in previous versions) you can peek() ahead - check
> the future events before they are fired for real:
>
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/stream/XMLEventReader.html#peek()
>
>
>   

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  • Ordering in SAX filter
    • From: Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@g...>
  • Re: Ordering in SAX filter
    • From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...>