[dom4j-user] Help reading xml from socket

[David Hooker]

Title: Message

I have a socket from which I'm receiving xml.  I need to create a Document object from this.  Once the xml comes in, I need to leave the socket open for other data to come in.  Here's the receiving code:

 

    private Document getDocumentFromStream(InputStream xmlStream)
    {
        Document doc = null;

 

        SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
        reader.setValidation(false);

 

        try
        {
            doc = reader.read(xmlStream);
        }
        catch(DocumentException de)
        {
            System.out.println("error");

        }
        return doc;
    }

Now, the sender is calling flush() on the stream after it sends the xml, but it isn't closing the socket.  Does the SAXReader know when the end of the xml data is so that it can construct and return the Document - without me having to close the stream to signal it that there is no more data?