J2ME SAX Parser

[Unit1ed]

Hi guys,

I am trying to parse a simple xml file with SAXParser(jsr 172):

<tag1>value1</tag1>
<tag2>value2</tag2>
<tag3>value3</tag3>

It always throws me SAXParseException every time I want to parse it. But works OK only if I have 1 tag and 1 value in my xml file.

I couldn't find enough good examples or tutorials on how to use it, but here is what I have so far:

saxFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
parser = saxFactory.newSAXParser();
handler = new SAXHandler();
parser.parse(is, handler);

Where handler is my extended version of DefaultHandler with following functions:

// Opening tag
public void startElement(String uri, String localName,
                         String qName, Attributes attrs)
                                        throws SAXParseException {
        tag = qName;
        System.out.println(tag);
}

// Value
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
                                        throws SAXParseException {
        value = new String(ch, start, length);
        System.out.println(value);
}

// Closing tag
public void endElement(String uri, String localName,
                         String qName, Attributes attrs)
                                        throws SAXParseException {
        hashTable.put(tag, value);
}

When I try to parse the xml file above it prints:

tag1
value1
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: 
        at org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler.fatalError(+1)
        at com.sun.ukit.jaxp.Parser.panic(+18)
        at com.sun.ukit.jaxp.Parser.parse(+186)
        at com.sun.ukit.jaxp.Parser.parse(+47)
        at com.sun.ukit.jaxp.Parser.parse(+31)
        ...

When I tried to debug it I found out that it never goes to endElement() function, throws exception before it.

Please help,
Thanks.

[VaradiZsolt]

I am trying to parse a simple xml file with SAXParser(jsr 172):

<tag1>value1</tag1>
<tag2>value2</tag2>
<tag3>value3</tag3>

It always throws me SAXParseException every time I want to parse it. But works OK only if I have 1 tag and 1 value in my xml file.

I think I've found your problem right here. XML files must have only one root node, that's why your code works with one tag and explodes with three. This is simply a not well-formed XML.

So add a root element around your tags, like this:

<testdata>
    <tag1>value1</tag1>
    <tag2>value2</tag2>
    <tag3>value3</tag3>
</testdata>

You could also include an XML header to specify the character encoding, like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<testdata>
    <tag1>value1</tag1>
    <tag2>value2</tag2>
    <tag3>value3</tag3>
</testdata>

HTH,
Zsolt

[Unit1ed]

This is simply a not well-formed XML.

Thanks a lot. It was very stupid of me to forget this. It works fine now =)

But endElement() function is not called at all.

[VaradiZsolt]

But endElement() function is not called at all.

That's because you aren't overriding the base class' EndElement method, there's a mistake in your method signature.

Here:

public void endElement(String uri, String localName,
                         String qName, Attributes attrs)

There's no Attributes argument in the endElement call. It wouldn't even make sense, because SAX doesn't remember the start tag's attributes by design.

Change it to this:

public void endElement(String uri, String localName,
                         String qName)

[Unit1ed]

There's no Attributes argument in the endElement call. It wouldn't even make sense, because SAX doesn't remember the start tag's attributes by design.

Thanks a lot for your help, I feel so embarrassed right now. I'll try to be more careful next time when I read javadocs =)