Parse RSS feed -System.out

Question

Hi,
As below i have been reading RSS feeds.
When i execute the parser.parse(url) method i get a dump of the xml bones from the feed onto System.out, which in my case is a catalina log file.
Is there any way/method that im not aware of that can prevent this going to System.out?
public void readRSSDocument() throws Exception {
        //Create the parser
        RssParser parser = RssParserFactory.createDefault();
        //Parse our url
        Rss rss = parser.parse(
                new URL("http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_world.rss"));
    }output:
<rss>
<channel>
<title>
</title>
<link>
</link>
<description>
</description>
<language>
</language>
<copyright>
</copyright>
<pubDate>
</pubDate>
<ttl>
</ttl>
<image>
<title>
</title>
<link>
</link>
<url>
</url>
<width>
</width>
<height>
</height>
<description>
</description>
</image>
<atom10:link>
</atom10:link>
<atom10:link>
</atom10:link>
<item>
<title>
</title>
<guid>
</guid>
<link>
</link>
<description>
</description>
<pubDate>
</pubDate>
<feedburner:origLink>
</feedburner:origLink>
</item>
<item>
<title>
</title>
<guid>
</guid>
<link>
</link>
<description>
</description>
<pubDate>
..

Answer 1

I am presuming that you picked up the code from [this tutorial|http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javaserverpages/rss_utilities/]
Looks like the library was compiled with System.out.println() statements in it.
There is always the handy little method "System.setOut()" to redirect it.
Alternatively, decompile the code, delete/comment the System.out.println statements and then recompile it.
Its not that hard. Here's the offending class:
// Decompiled by Jad v1.5.8g. Copyright 2001 Pavel Kouznetsov.
// Jad home page: http://www.kpdus.com/jad.html
// Decompiler options: packimports(3)
// Source File Name:   DocumentHandler.java
package com.sun.cnpi.rss.handlers;
import com.sun.cnpi.rss.elements.Element;
import com.sun.cnpi.rss.elements.Rss;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.*;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
// Referenced classes of package com.sun.cnpi.rss.handlers:
//            NullElementHandler, ElementHandler, HandlerException
public class DocumentHandler extends DefaultHandler
    public DocumentHandler()
        handlers = new HashMap();
        handlerStack = new Stack();
        parentStack = new Stack();
        rss = new Rss("rss");
        handlers.put(null, new NullElementHandler());
        parentStack.add(rss);
    public void registerHandler(String key, ElementHandler handler)
        handlers.put(key.toLowerCase(), handler);
    public void addToParentStack(Element parent)
        parentStack.add(parent);
    public Element popFromParentStack()
        return (Element)parentStack.pop();
    public Element peekParentStack()
        return (Element)parentStack.peek();
    public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes)
        throws SAXException
        //System.out.println("<" + qName + ">");
        try
            ElementHandler currentHandler = (ElementHandler)handlers.get(qName.toLowerCase());
            handlerStack.add(currentHandler);
            if(currentHandler != null)
                Element parent = (Element)parentStack.peek();
                currentHandler.startElement(this, parent, uri, localName, qName, attributes);
        catch(HandlerException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        super.startElement(uri, localName, qName, attributes);
    public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length)
        throws SAXException
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
        Element element = (Element)parentStack.peek();
        if(element.getText() != null)
            buffer.append(element.getText());
        buffer.append(ch, start, length);
        element.setText(buffer.toString());
        super.characters(ch, start, length);
    public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
        throws SAXException
        //System.out.println("</" + qName + ">");
        if(!handlerStack.isEmpty())
            try
                ElementHandler currentHandler = (ElementHandler)handlerStack.pop();
                if(currentHandler != null)
                    Element parent = (Element)parentStack.peek();
                    currentHandler.endElement(this, parent, uri, localName, qName);
            catch(HandlerException e)
                e.printStackTrace();
        super.endElement(uri, localName, qName);
    public Rss getRss()
        return rss;
    private Map handlers;
    private Stack handlerStack;
    private Stack parentStack;
    private Rss rss;
}