Re: [xml-dev] Ordering in SAX filter

[Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@gmail.com>]

Andrew Welch wrote:
> 2008/5/18 Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@gmail.com>:
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>> I need to process some elements in a SAX filter only when a condition
>> occurs. The problem that this condition occurs later, and after all the
>> events for the elements I need to process are fired. For example:
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> In the past when I've had this requirement I've either pushed all the
> events onto a stack until the condition comes along, or just parsed
> the document twice.
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How did you push the event on the stack? What object did you use to 
store the events?

>> I need to know if someone has a better and easier idea ?
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> In Java 6 (or StAX in previous versions) you can peek() ahead - check
> the future events before they are fired for real:
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> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/stream/XMLEventReader.html#peek()
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