xml-dev - Re: SAX and stuff ...

[Stefan Haustein <haustein@ls8.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

Tony Pelton wrote:
> 
> 1. Is this a practical, reasonable and expected approach to doing SAX
> parsing for a handful of fairly simple but potentially large XML messages
> that we have brewed "in-house" and have not developed DTD's for ?
> (...)
> I then find myself thinking about the number of "if's" my code is performing
> on every startElement() ... and then I find myself putting the "if's" that I
> expect to get more of ... before the one's I expect less of ...

There are several options:

If you are building a tree of objects during parsing, 
you can perhaps map the element names to the classes 
using a hashtable and reflection (see Class.newInstance () etc..).

If you just want to save some time, you could use a switch statement
for the first character and skip some ifs this way (divide and conquer).

Another possibility could be to use a pull parser 
instead of sax. A pull parser works similar to a 
reader, so you can simply have different parsing 
methods for different contexts.

Best,

Stefan

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