You could (in theory) use the SAXReader.addHandler() mechanism, however ... I think it would be better to write your own SAX ContentHandler instead:
<source> try { XMLReader parser = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader( "org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser"); parser.setContentHandler( new TestContentHandler()); parser.parse( "test.xml"); } catch ( SAXException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } class TestContentHandler implements ContentHandler { private ArrayList values = new ArrayList(); private ArrayList activeContent = new ArrayList(); public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qName, Attributes atts) throws SAXException { if ( localName.equals( "test")) { StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(); activeContent.add( buffer); } } public void characters(char[] text, int start, int length) throws SAXException { if ( content.size() > 0) { StringBuffer buffer = (StringBuffer)activeContent.get( content.size()-1); buffer.append( text, start, length); } } public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String localName) throws SAXException { if ( localName.equals( "test")) { values.add( activeContent.get( activeContent.size()-1); activeContent.remove( activeContent.size()-1); } } // do nothing methods public void setDocumentLocator(Locator locator) {} public void startDocument() throws SAXException {} public void endDocument() throws SAXException {} public void startPrefixMapping(String prefix, String uri) throws SAXException {} public void endPrefixMapping(String prefix) throws SAXException {} public void skippedEntity(String name) throws SAXException {} public void ignorableWhitespace(char[] text, int start, int length) throws SAXException {} public void processingInstruction(String target, String data) throws SAXException {} } </source> Regards, Edwin ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user