How to Create XML file with SAX parser instead of DOM parser

Question

HI ALL,
I am in need of creating an XML file by SAX parser ONLY. As far as my knowledge goes, we can use DOM for such purpose(by using createElement, creatAttribute ...). Can anyone tell me, is there any way to create an XML file using SAX Parser only. I mean, I just want to know whether SAX provides any sort of api for Creatign an element, attribute etc. I know that SAX is for event based parsing. But my requirement is to create an XML file from using only SAX parser.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanx in advance
Kaushik

Answer 1

Hi,
You must write a XMLWriter class yourself, and that Class extends DefaultHandle ....., the overwrite the startElement(url, localName, qName, attributeList), startDocument(), endElement().....and so on.
in startElement write your own logic about how to create a new element and how to create a Attribute list
in startDocument write your own logic about how to build a document and encodeType, dtd....
By using:
XMLWriter out = new XMLWriter()
out.startDocument();
Attribute attr1 = new Atribute();
attr1.add("name", "value");
out.startElement("","","Element1", attr1);
Attribute attr2 = new Atribute();
attr2.add("name", "value");
out.startElement("","","Element2", attr2);
out.endElement("","","Element2");
out.endElement("","","Element1");
out.endDocument();