org.dom4j.io

Class SAXReader

java.lang.Object

org.dom4j.io.SAXReader

public class SAXReader
extends java.lang.Object

SAXReader creates a DOM4J tree from SAX parsing events.

The actual SAX parser that is used by this class is configurable so you can use your favourite SAX parser if you wish. DOM4J comes configured with its own SAX parser so you do not need to worry about configuring the SAX parser.

To explicitly configure the SAX parser that is used via Java code you can use a constructor or use the setXMLReader(XMLReader)or setXMLReaderClassName(String) methods.

If the parser is not specified explicitly then the standard SAX policy of using the org.xml.sax.driver system property is used to determine the implementation class of XMLReader.

If the org.xml.sax.driver system property is not defined then JAXP is used via reflection (so that DOM4J is not explicitly dependent on the JAXP classes) to load the JAXP configured SAXParser. If there is any error creating a JAXP SAXParser an informational message is output and then the default (Aelfred) SAX parser is used instead.

If you are trying to use JAXP to explicitly set your SAX parser and are experiencing problems, you can turn on verbose error reporting by defining the system property org.dom4j.verbose to be "true" which will output a more detailed description of why JAXP could not find a SAX parser

For more information on JAXP please go to Sun's Java & XML site

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
protected static class	SAXReader.SAXEntityResolver

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SAXReader() This method internally calls SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().getXMLReader() or XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader().
SAXReader(boolean validating) This method internally calls SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().getXMLReader() or XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader().
SAXReader(DocumentFactory factory) This method internally calls SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().getXMLReader() or XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader().
SAXReader(DocumentFactory factory, boolean validating) This method internally calls SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().getXMLReader() or XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader().
SAXReader(java.lang.String xmlReaderClassName)
SAXReader(java.lang.String xmlReaderClassName, boolean validating)
SAXReader(org.xml.sax.XMLReader xmlReader)
SAXReader(org.xml.sax.XMLReader xmlReader, boolean validating)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	addHandler(java.lang.String path, ElementHandler handler) Adds the ElementHandler to be called when the specified path is encounted.
protected void	configureReader(org.xml.sax.XMLReader reader, org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler handler) Configures the XMLReader before use
protected SAXContentHandler	createContentHandler(org.xml.sax.XMLReader reader) Factory Method to allow user derived SAXContentHandler objects to be used
static SAXReader	createDefault()
protected org.xml.sax.EntityResolver	createDefaultEntityResolver(java.lang.String systemId)
protected org.xml.sax.XMLReader	createXMLReader() Factory Method to allow alternate methods of creating and configuring XMLReader objects
protected org.dom4j.io.DispatchHandler	getDispatchHandler()
DocumentFactory	getDocumentFactory() DOCUMENT ME!
java.lang.String	getEncoding() Returns encoding used for InputSource (null means system default encoding)
org.xml.sax.EntityResolver	getEntityResolver() Returns the current entity resolver used to resolve entities
org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler	getErrorHandler() DOCUMENT ME!
org.xml.sax.XMLFilter	getXMLFilter() Returns the SAX filter being used to filter SAX events.
org.xml.sax.XMLReader	getXMLReader() DOCUMENT ME!
protected org.xml.sax.XMLReader	installXMLFilter(org.xml.sax.XMLReader reader) Installs any XMLFilter objects required to allow the SAX event stream to be filtered and preprocessed before it gets to dom4j.
boolean	isIgnoreComments() Returns whether we should ignore comments or not.
boolean	isIncludeExternalDTDDeclarations() DOCUMENT ME!
boolean	isIncludeInternalDTDDeclarations() DOCUMENT ME!
boolean	isMergeAdjacentText() Returns whether adjacent text nodes should be merged together.
boolean	isStringInternEnabled() Sets whether String interning is enabled or disabled for element & attribute names and namespace URIs.
boolean	isStripWhitespaceText() Sets whether whitespace between element start and end tags should be ignored
boolean	isValidating() DOCUMENT ME!
Document	read(java.io.File file) Reads a Document from the given File
Document	read(org.xml.sax.InputSource in) Reads a Document from the given InputSource using SAX
Document	read(java.io.InputStream in) Reads a Document from the given stream using SAX
Document	read(java.io.InputStream in, java.lang.String systemId) Reads a Document from the given stream using SAX
Document	read(java.io.Reader reader) Reads a Document from the given Reader using SAX
Document	read(java.io.Reader reader, java.lang.String systemId) Reads a Document from the given Reader using SAX
Document	read(java.lang.String systemId) Reads a Document from the given URL or filename using SAX.
Document	read(java.net.URL url) Reads a Document from the given URL using SAX
void	removeHandler(java.lang.String path) Removes the ElementHandler from the event based processor, for the specified path.
void	resetHandlers() This method clears out all the existing handlers and default handler setting things back as if no handler existed.
void	setDefaultHandler(ElementHandler handler) When multiple ElementHandler instances have been registered, this will set a default ElementHandler to be called for any path which does NOT have a handler registered.
protected void	setDispatchHandler(org.dom4j.io.DispatchHandler dispatchHandler)
void	setDocumentFactory(DocumentFactory documentFactory) This sets the DocumentFactory used to create new documents.
void	setEncoding(java.lang.String encoding) Sets encoding used for InputSource (null means system default encoding)
void	setEntityResolver(org.xml.sax.EntityResolver entityResolver) Sets the entity resolver used to resolve entities.
void	setErrorHandler(org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler errorHandler) Sets the ErrorHandler used by the SAX XMLReader.
void	setFeature(java.lang.String name, boolean value) Sets a SAX feature on the underlying SAX parser.
void	setIgnoreComments(boolean ignoreComments) Sets whether we should ignore comments or not.
void	setIncludeExternalDTDDeclarations(boolean include) Sets whether DTD external declarations should be expanded into the DocumentType object or not.
void	setIncludeInternalDTDDeclarations(boolean include) Sets whether internal DTD declarations should be expanded into the DocumentType object or not.
void	setMergeAdjacentText(boolean mergeAdjacentText) Sets whether or not adjacent text nodes should be merged together when parsing.
void	setProperty(java.lang.String name, java.lang.Object value) Allows a SAX property to be set on the underlying SAX parser.
void	setStringInternEnabled(boolean stringInternEnabled) Sets whether String interning is enabled or disabled for element & attribute names and namespace URIs
void	setStripWhitespaceText(boolean stripWhitespaceText) Sets whether whitespace between element start and end tags should be ignored.
void	setValidation(boolean validation) Sets the validation mode.
void	setXMLFilter(org.xml.sax.XMLFilter filter) Sets the SAX filter to be used when filtering SAX events
void	setXMLReader(org.xml.sax.XMLReader reader) Sets the XMLReader used to parse SAX events
void	setXMLReaderClassName(java.lang.String xmlReaderClassName) Sets the class name of the XMLReader to be used to parse SAX events.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SAXReader

public SAXReader()

This method internally calls SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().getXMLReader() or XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(). Be sure to configure returned reader if the default configuration does not suit you. Consider setting the following properties:

 reader.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
 reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
 reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
 

SAXReader

public SAXReader(boolean validating)

This method internally calls SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().getXMLReader() or XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(). Be sure to configure returned reader if the default configuration does not suit you. Consider setting the following properties:

 reader.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
 reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
 reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
 

Parameters:

validating -

SAXReader

public SAXReader(DocumentFactory factory)

This method internally calls SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().getXMLReader() or XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(). Be sure to configure returned reader if the default configuration does not suit you. Consider setting the following properties:

 reader.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
 reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
 reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
 

Parameters:

factory -

SAXReader

public SAXReader(DocumentFactory factory,
                 boolean validating)

This method internally calls SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().getXMLReader() or XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(). Be sure to configure returned reader if the default configuration does not suit you. Consider setting the following properties:

 reader.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
 reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
 reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
 

Parameters:

factory -

validating -

SAXReader

public SAXReader(org.xml.sax.XMLReader xmlReader)

SAXReader

public SAXReader(org.xml.sax.XMLReader xmlReader,
                 boolean validating)

SAXReader

public SAXReader(java.lang.String xmlReaderClassName)
          throws org.xml.sax.SAXException

Throws:

org.xml.sax.SAXException

SAXReader

public SAXReader(java.lang.String xmlReaderClassName,
                 boolean validating)
          throws org.xml.sax.SAXException

Throws:

org.xml.sax.SAXException

Method Detail

createDefault

public static SAXReader createDefault()

setProperty

public void setProperty(java.lang.String name,
                        java.lang.Object value)
                 throws org.xml.sax.SAXException

Allows a SAX property to be set on the underlying SAX parser. This can be useful to set parser-specific properties such as the location of schema or DTD resources. Though use this method with caution as it has the possibility of breaking the standard behaviour. An alternative to calling this method is to correctly configure an XMLReader object instance and call the setXMLReader(XMLReader)method

Parameters:

name - is the SAX property name

value - is the value of the SAX property

Throws:

org.xml.sax.SAXException - if the XMLReader could not be created or the property could not be changed.

setFeature

public void setFeature(java.lang.String name,
                       boolean value)
                throws org.xml.sax.SAXException

Sets a SAX feature on the underlying SAX parser. This can be useful to set parser-specific features. Though use this method with caution as it has the possibility of breaking the standard behaviour. An alternative to calling this method is to correctly configure an XMLReader object instance and call the setXMLReader(XMLReader)method

Parameters:

name - is the SAX feature name

value - is the value of the SAX feature

Throws:

org.xml.sax.SAXException - if the XMLReader could not be created or the feature could not be changed.

read

public Document read(java.io.File file)
              throws DocumentException

Reads a Document from the given File

Parameters:

file - is the File to read from.

Returns:

the newly created Document instance

Throws:

DocumentException - if an error occurs during parsing.

read

public Document read(java.net.URL url)
              throws DocumentException

Reads a Document from the given URL using SAX

Parameters:

url - URL to read from.

Returns:

the newly created Document instance

Throws:

DocumentException - if an error occurs during parsing.

read

public Document read(java.lang.String systemId)
              throws DocumentException

Reads a Document from the given URL or filename using SAX.

If the systemId contains a ':' character then it is assumed to be a URL otherwise its assumed to be a file name. If you want finer grained control over this mechansim then please explicitly pass in either a URLor a Fileinstance instead of a String to denote the source of the document.

Parameters:

systemId - is a URL for a document or a file name.

Returns:

the newly created Document instance

Throws:

DocumentException - if an error occurs during parsing.

read

public Document read(java.io.InputStream in)
              throws DocumentException

Reads a Document from the given stream using SAX

Parameters:

in - InputStream to read from.

Returns:

the newly created Document instance

Throws:

DocumentException - if an error occurs during parsing.

read

public Document read(java.io.Reader reader)
              throws DocumentException

Reads a Document from the given Reader using SAX

Parameters:

reader - is the reader for the input

Returns:

the newly created Document instance

Throws:

DocumentException - if an error occurs during parsing.

read

public Document read(java.io.InputStream in,
                     java.lang.String systemId)
              throws DocumentException

Reads a Document from the given stream using SAX

Parameters:

in - InputStream to read from.

systemId - is the URI for the input

Returns:

the newly created Document instance

Throws:

DocumentException - if an error occurs during parsing.

read

public Document read(java.io.Reader reader,
                     java.lang.String systemId)
              throws DocumentException

Reads a Document from the given Reader using SAX

Parameters:

reader - is the reader for the input

systemId - is the URI for the input

Returns:

the newly created Document instance

Throws:

DocumentException - if an error occurs during parsing.

read

public Document read(org.xml.sax.InputSource in)
              throws DocumentException

Reads a Document from the given InputSource using SAX

Parameters:

in - InputSource to read from.

Returns:

the newly created Document instance

Throws:

DocumentException - if an error occurs during parsing.

isValidating

public boolean isValidating()

DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

the validation mode, true if validating will be done otherwise false.

setValidation

public void setValidation(boolean validation)

Sets the validation mode.

Parameters:

validation - indicates whether or not validation should occur.

isIncludeInternalDTDDeclarations

public boolean isIncludeInternalDTDDeclarations()

DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

whether internal DTD declarations should be expanded into the DocumentType object or not.

setIncludeInternalDTDDeclarations

public void setIncludeInternalDTDDeclarations(boolean include)

Sets whether internal DTD declarations should be expanded into the DocumentType object or not.

Parameters:

include - whether or not DTD declarations should be expanded and included into the DocumentType object.

isIncludeExternalDTDDeclarations

public boolean isIncludeExternalDTDDeclarations()

DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

whether external DTD declarations should be expanded into the DocumentType object or not.

setIncludeExternalDTDDeclarations

public void setIncludeExternalDTDDeclarations(boolean include)

Sets whether DTD external declarations should be expanded into the DocumentType object or not.

Parameters:

include - whether or not DTD declarations should be expanded and included into the DocumentType object.

isStringInternEnabled

public boolean isStringInternEnabled()

Sets whether String interning is enabled or disabled for element & attribute names and namespace URIs. This proprety is enabled by default.

Returns:

DOCUMENT ME!

setStringInternEnabled

public void setStringInternEnabled(boolean stringInternEnabled)

Sets whether String interning is enabled or disabled for element & attribute names and namespace URIs

Parameters:

stringInternEnabled - DOCUMENT ME!

isMergeAdjacentText

public boolean isMergeAdjacentText()

Returns whether adjacent text nodes should be merged together.

Returns:

Value of property mergeAdjacentText.

setMergeAdjacentText

public void setMergeAdjacentText(boolean mergeAdjacentText)

Sets whether or not adjacent text nodes should be merged together when parsing.

Parameters:

mergeAdjacentText - New value of property mergeAdjacentText.

isStripWhitespaceText

public boolean isStripWhitespaceText()

Sets whether whitespace between element start and end tags should be ignored

Returns:

Value of property stripWhitespaceText.

setStripWhitespaceText

public void setStripWhitespaceText(boolean stripWhitespaceText)

Sets whether whitespace between element start and end tags should be ignored.

Parameters:

stripWhitespaceText - New value of property stripWhitespaceText.

isIgnoreComments

public boolean isIgnoreComments()

Returns whether we should ignore comments or not.

Returns:

boolean

setIgnoreComments

public void setIgnoreComments(boolean ignoreComments)

Sets whether we should ignore comments or not.

Parameters:

ignoreComments - whether we should ignore comments or not.

getDocumentFactory

public DocumentFactory getDocumentFactory()

DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

the DocumentFactory used to create document objects

setDocumentFactory

public void setDocumentFactory(DocumentFactory documentFactory)

This sets the DocumentFactory used to create new documents. This method allows the building of custom DOM4J tree objects to be implemented easily using a custom derivation of DocumentFactory

Parameters:

documentFactory - DocumentFactory used to create DOM4J objects

getErrorHandler

public org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler getErrorHandler()

DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

the ErrorHandler used by SAX

setErrorHandler

public void setErrorHandler(org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler errorHandler)

Sets the ErrorHandler used by the SAX XMLReader.

Parameters:

errorHandler - is the ErrorHandler used by SAX

getEntityResolver

public org.xml.sax.EntityResolver getEntityResolver()

Returns the current entity resolver used to resolve entities

Returns:

DOCUMENT ME!

setEntityResolver

public void setEntityResolver(org.xml.sax.EntityResolver entityResolver)

Sets the entity resolver used to resolve entities.

Parameters:

entityResolver - DOCUMENT ME!

getXMLReader

public org.xml.sax.XMLReader getXMLReader()
                                   throws org.xml.sax.SAXException

DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

the XMLReader used to parse SAX events

Throws:

org.xml.sax.SAXException - DOCUMENT ME!

setXMLReader

public void setXMLReader(org.xml.sax.XMLReader reader)

Sets the XMLReader used to parse SAX events

Parameters:

reader - is the XMLReader to parse SAX events

getEncoding

public java.lang.String getEncoding()

Returns encoding used for InputSource (null means system default encoding)

Returns:

encoding used for InputSource

setEncoding

public void setEncoding(java.lang.String encoding)

Sets encoding used for InputSource (null means system default encoding)

Parameters:

encoding - is encoding used for InputSource

setXMLReaderClassName

public void setXMLReaderClassName(java.lang.String xmlReaderClassName)
                           throws org.xml.sax.SAXException

Sets the class name of the XMLReader to be used to parse SAX events.

Parameters:

xmlReaderClassName - is the class name of the XMLReader to parse SAX events

Throws:

org.xml.sax.SAXException - DOCUMENT ME!

addHandler

public void addHandler(java.lang.String path,
                       ElementHandler handler)

Adds the ElementHandler to be called when the specified path is encounted.

Parameters:

path - is the path to be handled

handler - is the ElementHandler to be called by the event based processor.

removeHandler

public void removeHandler(java.lang.String path)

Removes the ElementHandler from the event based processor, for the specified path.

Parameters:

path - is the path to remove the ElementHandler for.

setDefaultHandler

public void setDefaultHandler(ElementHandler handler)

When multiple ElementHandler instances have been registered, this will set a default ElementHandler to be called for any path which does NOT have a handler registered.

Parameters:

handler - is the ElementHandler to be called by the event based processor.

resetHandlers

public void resetHandlers()

This method clears out all the existing handlers and default handler setting things back as if no handler existed. Useful when reusing an object instance.

getXMLFilter

public org.xml.sax.XMLFilter getXMLFilter()

Returns the SAX filter being used to filter SAX events.

Returns:

the SAX filter being used or null if no SAX filter is installed

setXMLFilter

public void setXMLFilter(org.xml.sax.XMLFilter filter)

Sets the SAX filter to be used when filtering SAX events

Parameters:

filter - is the SAX filter to use or null to disable filtering

installXMLFilter

protected org.xml.sax.XMLReader installXMLFilter(org.xml.sax.XMLReader reader)

Installs any XMLFilter objects required to allow the SAX event stream to be filtered and preprocessed before it gets to dom4j.

Parameters:

reader - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

the new XMLFilter if applicable or the original XMLReader if no filter is being used.

getDispatchHandler

protected org.dom4j.io.DispatchHandler getDispatchHandler()

setDispatchHandler

protected void setDispatchHandler(org.dom4j.io.DispatchHandler dispatchHandler)

createXMLReader

protected org.xml.sax.XMLReader createXMLReader()
                                         throws org.xml.sax.SAXException

Factory Method to allow alternate methods of creating and configuring XMLReader objects

Returns:

DOCUMENT ME!

Throws:

org.xml.sax.SAXException - DOCUMENT ME!

configureReader

protected void configureReader(org.xml.sax.XMLReader reader,
                               org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler handler)
                        throws DocumentException

Configures the XMLReader before use

Parameters:

reader - DOCUMENT ME!

handler - DOCUMENT ME!

Throws:

DocumentException - DOCUMENT ME!

createContentHandler

protected SAXContentHandler createContentHandler(org.xml.sax.XMLReader reader)

Factory Method to allow user derived SAXContentHandler objects to be used

Parameters:

reader - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

DOCUMENT ME!

createDefaultEntityResolver

protected org.xml.sax.EntityResolver createDefaultEntityResolver(java.lang.String systemId)