com.sapportals.wcm.util.xml

Interface IXMLExtReader

All Superinterfaces:

XMLReader

public interface IXMLExtReader

extends XMLReader

Extends XMLReader by pull-parsing methods.

Copyright (c) SAP AG 2003-2005

Method Summary

void	discard() Free all allocated resources.
void	parse() Completely parse the input source.
boolean	parseNextEvents() Parse the next (couple of) events, may be only one, and invoke them against the installed ContentHandler.
void	setInput(InputSource source) Set the input source for the reading, but does not start parsing yet.

Methods inherited from interface org.xml.sax.XMLReader

getContentHandler, getDTDHandler, getEntityResolver, getErrorHandler, getFeature, getProperty, parse, parse, setContentHandler, setDTDHandler, setEntityResolver, setErrorHandler, setFeature, setProperty

Method Detail

setInput

public void setInput(InputSource source)
              throws SAXException

Set the input source for the reading, but does not start parsing yet.

Parameters:

source - of input

Throws:

SAXException

parseNextEvents

public boolean parseNextEvents()
                        throws SAXException,
                               IOException

Parse the next (couple of) events, may be only one, and invoke them against the installed ContentHandler. The reader should ideally only fire one event, but is allowed to generate more to ease internal state management. Returns if end of input was reached.

Returns:

if end of input was reached.

Throws:

SAXException

IOException

parse

public void parse()
           throws IOException,
                  SAXException

Completely parse the input source.

Throws:

IOException

SAXException

discard

public void discard()

Free all allocated resources. Not necessary to call when parsing has finished.