Thanks Mark, I've just given that a try. I still don't get any calls to my startElement method, but there is a new warning which may be a clue:
12-19 17:14:24.241: INFO/NWXML(1852): Trying to parse: *snip* 12-19 17:14:24.241: WARN/ExpatReader(1852): DTD handlers aren't supported. DTD handlers aren't supported. Know what this means? 2009/12/19 Mark Murphy <[email protected]> > redders wrote: > > I appreciate the reply, but I selected the SAX method because of its > > efficiency advantages, so I'd really like to understand why my code > > isn't working. > > I don't use XMLReader and I have no problems with SAX on Android, such > as this one parsing a XML payload from a REST request: > > BufferedReader in=new BufferedReader(new > InputStreamReader(url.openStream())); > SAXParserFactory f=SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); > SAXParser p=f.newSAXParser(); > SearchParser parser=new SearchParser(null); > p.parse(new InputSource(in), parser); > > (where SearchParser is a DefaultHandler subclass) > > In your case, this would look like: > > SAXParserFactory f=SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); > SAXParser p=f.newSAXParser(); > StringReader sr = new StringReader(xmlMessage); > InputSource is = new InputSource(sr); > p.parse(is, this); > > Try something like that and see if it helps. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 1.0 In Print! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

