From: "Ing. Damiano Bolla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maybe I did not make clear the solution I used. > > It IS possible to parse an XML stream coming from a socket WITHOUT knowing > its length.
Not without making some assumptions about what the XML looks like. > What you need to do (I can post the code if you wish) is understanding the > logical end of the > XML stream (the logical end is whan you go back to level Zero of the XML tree). > > To do this you need to use a SAXDriver and use a custom ContentHandler class. > It works. Oh you mean to hack it to ignore everything after the last endElement() event then force the parser to abort by throwing a SAXException? It kinda works but its cheating really, since there may be comments and processing instructions that you might be hiding; this also may make the next document invalid. e.g. <?xml version="1.0"?> <foo>1</foo> <!-- bottom of doc 1 --> <?xml version="1.0"?> <foo>2</foo> If you stopped parsing as soon as you hit the </foo> tag then the comment at the end of the document will appear at the start of the next document, which is invalid as the <?xml ?> declaration has to the first. So the 2nd document won't parse. James _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev
