SAx and XML

[francis varkey]

Respected Sirs,

Is it possible to, using the SAX approach, extract the XML content between an opening and closing tag as if it was a continuous string of text?

For example, let's say we have the following document:

<one>
<two>
<three>data one</three>
<four>data two</four>
</two>
</one>

Is it possible to directly extract the content between <one> and </one>
as if it was a text string?

Thanks
Francis

[Gamini Sirisena]

Yes you can.
But there's a small catch. Check this thread.

[Gamini Sirisena]

oops sorry.. misread the question..
well you could always code for such logic..

[Paul Clapham]

Gamini is right, the answer is "yes".

But if you can't see how, I would suggest you convert a start-element event to a string containing a representation of an element's start tag, and so on. You won't necessarily get an exact representation of what's there, for example you may get attributes in a different order and you may represent empty elements differently, but that's allowed by the rules of XML.