Hi Boris, thank you for your answer. I think you are right. This would explain why i get cryptical signs as a value for this tag. Is there any possibility to determine such tags as tags which has no value (with SaxParser and the BaseHandler)?
Best regards, Mirko -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:36:38 +0200 > Von: Boris Kolpackov <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: SaxParser and tag without a value > Hi Mirko, > > Mirko Braun <[email protected]> writes: > > > In my xml file there is a tag like <tag></tag>. > > If i use the characters() method of the BaseHandler > > for this tag, i would expect to get an empty string > > but i get an value with some cryptical characters. > > This element does not contain any data so I would expect > the parser not to call characters() at all. > > Boris > > -- > Boris Kolpackov, Code Synthesis > http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog > Open-source XML data binding for C++ > http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd > XML data binding for embedded systems > http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsde > Command line interface to C++ compiler > http://codesynthesis.com/projects/cli
