Re: Ugly SAX

From:
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:12:28 -0800
Message-ID:
<hks1he$qr2$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Roedy Green wrote:

I wrote a bit of code using SAX to extract data from an XML
configuration file whose structure I composed myself. I thought to
myself, "This can't be right". Nobody in their right mind would invent
something so clumsy to extract the data." I used as a model various
bits of code I found on the net. I am hoping this information was
obsolete.

Is there a more streamlined way to do this?

In this case the XML file is quite small, so perhaps a DOM approach
might be more appropriate.

Here is the XML file I want to extract data from:

https://wush.net/websvn/mindprod/filedetails.php?repname=mindprod&path=%2Fcom%2Fmindprod%2Fhtmlreflow%2Fhtmlreflow.xml

Here is the XSD schema for the file

https://wush.net/websvn/mindprod/filedetails.php?repname=mindprod&path=%2Fcom%2Fmindprod%2Fhtmlreflow%2Fhtmlreflow.xsd

Here is my parsing code
https://wush.net/websvn/mindprod/filedetails.php?repname=mindprod&path=%2Fcom%2Fmindprod%2Fhtmlreflow%2FConfigure.java


Os this the code you meant to post? There's no SAX in it.

What bothers me is I explained in the XSD considerable detail about
the structure of the document, but none of this knowledge is
automatically used in extracting data.


To use sceham information to parse, use JAXB to generate Java classes that
correspond to your schema types, which will also have the logic to
deserialize themselves from XML.

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