Using SAX "characters()" event handler I get 2 different interpretations of the expansion of an external file. This external file is nothing more than a text file with several lines of text and the first line is an XML comment line.
At first glance, it looks like both cases are providing you with the exact same data. One breaks it up into a surprisingly large number of parts, but both provide exactly the same information (unless I missed something picky in the white space). In general SAX does not guarantee how many separate characters it will stuff into each call to characters. Your code needs to be written in such a way that it can handle extreme cases like every single character resulting in a separate call to characters().
See http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch06s07.html for details --
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