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Re: combining XMLEvent lists

• From: "Johannes.Lichtenberger" <Johannes.Lichtenberger@uni-konstanz.de>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:21:32 +0200

On 09/29/2010 12:09 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
> 
>> Right, StAX events. Hm, ok, it seems I'm a little bit hard of
>> understanding, but how do I create an XMLEventReader out of a
>> List<XMLEvent>?
>>
> 
> In essence, your XMLEventReader implementation contains a List<XMLEvent>
> list and and an int position, and you implement the seven methods of the
> interface something like this:
> 
> close()
>          - no-op
> 
> getElementText()
>           step position forwards through the list, accumulating text
> events in a StringBuffer until you reach the matching EndElement event,
> then return the contents of the StringBuffer
> 
> getProperty(java.lang.String name)
>           no-op
> 
>  boolean    hasNext()
>           test if position is at the end of the list
> 
>  XMLEvent    nextEvent()
>           return list[position++]
> 
>  XMLEvent    nextTag()
>          increment position until a START_ELEMENT or END_ELEMENT is
> reached.
> 
>  XMLEvent    peek()
>          return list[position+1] with some error checking.
> 
> Not really very difficult.

Ah ok, now I got it, implementing the interface and use my List as the
underlying datastructure. I always searched for the right constructors
and already thought I could convert it to a byte-Array and use a
byteArrayStream, haha ;-)

thanks,
Johannes

• References:
  • combining XMLEvent lists
    • From: "Johannes.Lichtenberger" <Johannes.Lichtenberger@uni-konstanz.de>
  • Re: combining XMLEvent lists
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: combining XMLEvent lists
    • From: "Johannes.Lichtenberger" <Johannes.Lichtenberger@uni-konstanz.de>
  • Re: combining XMLEvent lists
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: combining XMLEvent lists
    • From: "Johannes.Lichtenberger" <Johannes.Lichtenberger@uni-konstanz.de>
  • Re: combining XMLEvent lists
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: combining XMLEvent lists
    • From: David <dlee@calldei.com>
  • Re: combining XMLEvent lists
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: combining XMLEvent lists
    • From: "Johannes.Lichtenberger" <Johannes.Lichtenberger@uni-konstanz.de>
  • Re: combining XMLEvent lists
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>