How to delete elements with SAX?

[Shreeya Indap <mm...@hotmail.com>]

Hello All,

One of our requirements from the xml pipeline is to filter out blocked 
elements. I know with DOM it is just a matter of removing nodes from DOM 
tree but if possible I want to implement this functionality with SAX.

The filter I am writing works as a contentHandler and takes in 'rules.xml' 
as its input that contains ids of 'to be' blocked elements. The input source 
in the pipe generates SAX events and now on each startElement event I want 
to check if that element is listed in rules.xml as blocked and then 
terminate further processing of this element and move on to next one.

Is it possible to do this using SAX? or I have to use DOM if want to delete 
elements like this.

Thank you,
Meghana Joglekar
Merant, Inc.

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