re: Stopping XML parsing in mid-stream?

>  > So, essentially, I need a way to get parse() to return after it has seen a 
>  > closing root node.
> 
> Throw an exception -- that's the way SAX was designed to work:
> 
>   public class StopParsingException extends SAXException
>   {
>     ...
>   }

Except that, when reading from my InputStream, no exceptions are ever thrown;
parse() just keeps on reading and reading and reading.  An exception *is*
thrown once I forcefully close the connection on the server end, but that's
obviously not a workable solution :)



> David

Michael


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