re: Stopping XML parsing in mid-stream?

Michael Chang writes:

 > >  > 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 :)

I'm not sure I understand -- you're the one who will have to throw the
exception, in your ContentHandler.endElement() method.  If that never
gets called, then your SAX parser might be doing a lot of
forward-buffering -- that's a separate, implementation-specific
problem, and might be solvable by switching to a different SAX parser.


All the best,


David

-- 
David Megginson, [email protected], http://www.megginson.com/


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