Thanks for the prompt response. I now have exactly the
behaviour I want.
Dee Jay
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On Fri, Sep 14 2001 at 03:27:15P -0400, David N Bertoni/CAM/Lotus wrote:
>
> Hi Dee Jay,
>
> If you derive your handler from LexicalHandler, you can install the handler
> into the parser using setLexicalHandler(), and handle the startCDATA() and
> endCDATA() events. Probably the easiest way is to have a boolean flag in
> your handler that is toggled by the calls.
>
> Dave
>
>
> Dee Jay Randall
> <randal@circularrea To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> soning.com> cc: (bcc: David N Bertoni/CAM/Lotus)
> Subject: handling whitespace and CDATA with SAX2 characters()
>handler
> 09/14/2001 02:20 PM
> Please respond to
> xerces-c-dev
>
> I am trying to parse the following xml using the SAX2 parser:
>
> <Value>
> <![CDATA[some text]]>
> </Value>
>
> The problem I am running into is that I want the
> result of parsing this to be:
>
> "some text"
>
> but instead I am getting:
>
> "\n some text\n"
>
> because my characters() handler is getting everything
> between <Value> and </Value> instead of just what is
> inside the CDATA. (I realize that this is what should
> happen. Right?)
>
> Is there a way to tell from inside my characters()
> handler whether or not I'm inside CDATA?
>
> It isn't sufficient to just strip leading and trailing
> whitespace because I also want to parse:
>
> <Value> <![CDATA[ some text]]></Value>
>
> into " some text" (one leading space, not two).
>
> Is the only solution to make sure that there is no
> whitespace between my <Value> and CDATA elements?
>
> Thanks,
> Dee Jay
>
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> | Founding Partner | Software Engineer| Dee Jay Randall, B.Sc.|
> | Circular Reasoning | Accrue Software | M.Sc. Student, CS |
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