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Posted to c-dev@xerces.apache.org by Benoît Desmeules <bd...@eurekium.com> on 2001/08/14 17:52:31 UTC

Problem understanding characters() callback in SAX2 parser

I don't fully know the internals of Xerces so maybe my problem is caused by 
a misunderstanding. Although, I'd need some advice about something.

I'm using SAX2 to parse an XML file and retrieve its content. It's been 
running fine for a while until someone used &lt; and &gt; codes in the XML 
file. When there are such codes in an XML tag, the 
DefaultHandler::characters() callback gets called a few times (each time it 
encounters a &lt; or &gt; code).

For example, if I had <foo>bar is &lt; than bla</foo> in my XML file, my 
characters gets called twice :
first time with "bar is " and the second time with "< than bla".

Is there a way to only get one call to characters or do I have to 
concatenate the contents?

Thanks in advance for the response.

         Ben




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