Re: SAX2 parser abort

[Rob Lugt <roblugt@elcel.com>]

If you look at the SAX 2.0 documentation for parse(InputSource) you will
read:-

"This method is synchronous: it will not return until parsing has ended. If
a client application wants to terminate parsing early, it should throw an
exception."

So if you want to terminate the parse before the end of the xml document,
your handler can throw a SAXException.

Regards
Rob Lugt
ElCel Technology



----- Original Message -----
From: Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>
To: Xml-Dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>; David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
Sent: 18 March 2001 04:49
Subject: SAX2 parser abort


> Can you please clear up my understanding of this : the javadoc says the
the
> interfaces are assumed to be synchronous and 'parse methods must not
return
> until parsing is complete'. Does this, as it seems to suggest, preclude
> aborting a parse (e.g. after a particular element has been found)? If this
> is the case, wouldn't it be useful to include a mechanism to allow this -
or
> is there already one that I've missed?
>
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> Danny Ayers
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