Event calling for characters method

[tushar jayawant]

Hi to all

Thankx a lot for the prev mail reply . i have one more doubt

The SAX specifiction say that


public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)

method does not send all the characters between a start and end tag will be sent in one go. The spec doesn't constrain SAX parsers to this

now suppose i have on element like

<A> abcxyz</A>

so if in the first call of the characters method if it send only "abc" then whether the next event again call the characters method and this time
it send the remaining character "xyz"


Thankx in advance
Tushar

[Sathya Sankar]

Tushar,
Yes you are correct. The parser will read a chunk of data and invoke the characters(char[], int, int) method. It'd then continue reading from where it left off, read one more chunk and call the same method. This goes on till it reads the complete data.

The chunk of data read varies from parser to parser. Xerces reads 8KB of character data for each method call.

Ciao,
GSS

[tushar jayawant]

Hi
Sathya Sankar ,thankx a lot for the reply .........

Tushar Kandlagaonkar