Parsing Problem

Hi am trying to parse a XML document using SAX parser. And in the start Element()
public void startElement(String namespaceURI,
String localName,
String qualifiedName,
Attributes attrs) {}

Attributes were coming.. Suppose the attributes are not specified in the document, still this attrs taking the values from DTD. How to avoid this

Too difficult a question for beginners'. Moving.

If this was my problem I would experiment with creating an implementation of DTDHandler that did nothing and making the parser use that instead of the default. See the XMLReader docs.

I have no idea if that would work but that is what I would try first.

Bill

You have an org.xml.sax.Attributes object? See if it can be cast to org.xml.sax.ext.Attributes2. If it can, then there are methods to tell whether an attribute came from a DTD default. Read the API docs for Attributes2 for more information.

Unable to cast to Attributes2 am getting classcastException. Even I tried for Attributes2Impl. Please assist me how to proceed further

Any suggestions are welcome