Error sax parser

Question

Hi,
I'm parsing xml document with sax, but this raise error in the method characters(char ch[], int start, int length)
I'm tried writed to console the variable ch[] and this show me the xml document break , for example
<FechaInicio>20020823080000</FechaInicio>
<FechaTermino>2002082
the raise error when I do
fechai = new String(ch, start, length);
String dia = fechai.substring(6, 8);
String mes = fechai.substring(4, 6);
String ano = fechai.substring(0, 4);
String hor = fechai.substring(8, 14);
Thanks a lot
Rodolfo

Answer 1

You assume that your fechai variable contains "20020823080000". It may only contain part of that. To get the entire contents of the text node, you need code like this:private StringBuffer fechaiBuffer;
public void startElement(...) {
  fechaiBuffer = new StringBuffer();
public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) {
  fechaiBuffer.append(ch, start, length);
public void endElement(...) {
  fechai = fechaiBuffer.toString();
  // and so on
}PC&#178;