Question

I am using the SAX parser to parse preformed text as listed below:

<content><![CDATA[(a) Definitions. 
   (i) term - Definition of term
   (ii) term 2 - Definition of term 2
   (iii) term 3 - Definition of term 3]]>
</content>

My handler

public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length){
    if (content) {
        contentText = new String(ch, start, length));
    }   
}     

However I am only getting the first line “(a) Definitions. ” in my character buffer. The other lines are not being copied. How can I access the missing lines?

Thank You.

Answer 1

According to SAX parser specification, you may be getting multiple callbacks for characters, representing chunks of the same character block. You should combine consecutive ones into a single string.

The Parser will call [characters] method to report each chunk of character data. SAX parsers may return all contiguous character data in a single chunk, or they may split it into several chunks; however, all of the characters in any single event must come from the same external entity so that the Locator provides useful information.