Your XML document requires a DTD with element declarations which specify that they contain element-only content. Without that a SAX parser cannot determine which whitespaces are 'ignorable'.
Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Technologies and WAS Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org "Zhu, Joe" <joe....@lmco.com> wrote on 09/11/2014 07:00:11 PM: > I am writing an app which need to access all text content in XML. > According to the ContentHandler API, this could be accomplished by > using a validating parser and the characters() method. > > But with the Xerces parser, the characters() method could contain > ignorable whitespaces (XML formatting whitespaces). I have no way to > tell if the whitespace is ignorable whitespace or is part of the XML content. > > Has anybody else run into the problem? I tested with both Xerces 2. > 9.1 and Xerces 2.11. They behave the same way. > > Joe Zhu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org
