Re: SAX Parser includes ignorable whitespaces in the character() method

Your XML document requires a DTD with element declarations which specify 
that they contain element-only content. Without that a SAX parser cannot 
determine which whitespaces are 'ignorable'.

Thanks.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Technologies and WAS Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected]

"Zhu, Joe" <[email protected]> wrote on 09/11/2014 07:00:11 PM:

> I am writing an app which need to access all text content in XML. 
> According to the ContentHandler API, this could be accomplished by 
> using a validating parser and the characters() method.
> 
> But with the Xerces parser, the characters() method could contain 
> ignorable whitespaces (XML formatting whitespaces). I have no way to
> tell if the whitespace is ignorable whitespace or is part of the XML 
content.
> 
> Has anybody else run into the problem? I tested with both Xerces 2.
> 9.1 and Xerces 2.11. They behave the same way.
> 
> Joe Zhu