Thanks, this got me on the right path...one other question and I'll leave
everyone alone. It seems that my characters always have at least one,
usually two blank lines per element. For instance if I have
System.out.println ("Characters: " + s); The variable s is my character
string, I'll have lines in my output that basically show nothing but
Characters: and it's then blank.I have the ignorable white space defined, but it doesn't seem to do anything in this case. What I need to know is how I can avoid it printing these blank lines. Thanks everyone! ~Cheers Brent -----Original Message----- From: Stevie Goh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Help!! Here is what I do. You define one or more method in your Class that implements ContentHandler interface. Then somewhere in your main class, I am sure you will need to call your contenthandler in setContentHandlerMethod. From there you can get hold reference to your contenthandler class. Thus, you can get your result by calling contenthandler.yourmethodhere(); Due to fundamental difference in the SAX and DOM Processing, I think this is the best way you can do. Hope this help. -----Original Message----- From: Brent Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Help!! Stupid question I'm sure..however, what does ContentHandler return? I have my main class that starts the parsing, then a custom content handler class that implements ContentHandler. However, in my main class I'm not sure what I can use that's returned in ContentHandler. What I did in my ContentHandler was create a StringBuffer of data...I need that StringBuffer to available in the main class Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance for the patience with the newbie. -Brent -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 6:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help!! you need to write a class which extends DefaultHandler .. then over ride the relevant methods to save your data to the hash table so if your xml is like <element1> blah blah </element1> then you over ride the methods characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) and put the charecters that you are getting in a StringBuffer. and override endElement(java.lang.String uri, java.lang.String localName, java.lang.String qName) and put the data from the String buffer in the hashtable and create a new StringBuffer... there is no way to clear the String buffer and remember to make the string buffer an instance variable so that it is accessible to both the methods hope it helps anshuman Brent Scott wrote: > Newbie to Java and probably in way over my head, but I need to finish this > project or I'll go crazy :) > > I'm trying to create a SAX driven parser using Xerces. I chose SAX over DOM > for minimal memory usage. What I'm not sure how to do is put the results in > a Hashtable. It's important that I be able to do this so I can later call > the results of the Hashtable. > > Is this something that is possible? I've seen one way it's done with DOM but > the way DOM parses and the way SAX does seem seemingly different. > > If someone could help me or at least point me in the right direction I would > be most appreciative. I am more than willing to send current code to willing > participant. > > Thank you Group!! > > ~Cheers, Brent
