SAX parser: handling empty tags

[D Kiran Kumar]

Hi,
How do you handle empty tags( <abc></abc> or <abc/> ). Ideally, I should get a "" as the parsed value. But I'm getting tabs and new lines. Does anyone know the answer as to why this is happening?
Thanks and regards,
D. Kiran Kumar.

[Lasse Koskela]

Kiran, would you mind separating your display name into two (or three) pieces? That's what our naming policy requires. You can change your display name here.
Thanks.

[Lasse Koskela]

Regarding your problem, could you post the SAX handler you've written? It might help solving the problem.

[D Kiran Kumar]

Thanks for the reply.
This is the characters() method that I've overridden.
My SAXHandler extends DefaultHandler and I'm using
org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser
public void characters( char[] ch, int start, int length )
{
_sbValue = new StringBuffer();
_sbValue.append( ch, start, length );
}//End of method

[William Brogden]

If your characters() is getting tabs and new-lines then I bet there are tabs and new-lines in your actual document. How is the document being generated? How are you examining it?
Bill

[D Kiran Kumar]

That is right.
The xml doc I'm parsing is indented with tabs and every tag starts from a new line. The xml is not dynamically generated either. I didn't get what you meant by "examining".