Hi, On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Jonathan Koren <jonat...@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote: > Actually, if ParsingReader had some sort of mode where it spat out the xml > directly instead of (indirectly) using WriteOutContentHandler to convert > everything to plain text, then one could whatever xml parser, including an > xml to text converter, on the read side. As it is, it seems like > ParsingReader is being just a little too smart.
The main purpose of ParsingReader is to be a Reader, i.e. to produce a stream of characters. If you want to see the SAX events, you can just use the Parser interface directly: ContentHandler handler = new MyCustomContentHandler(); new AutoDetectParser().parse(..., handler, ...); BR, Jukka Zitting