Problem parsing with SAX2

Question

Hi all,
I am new to SAX2 Parsing and I'm having trouble getting my application to parse an xml. My code looks something like this:
XMLReader xr = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser");
ContentHandler contentHandler = new DefaultHandler();
ErrorHandler errorHandler = new DefaultHandler();
xr.setContentHandler(contentHandler);
xr.setErrorHandler(errorHandler);
System.out.println("about to parse");
xr.parse(new InputSource(template));
System.out.println("done parsing");
I have implemented the startDocument, startElement, etc methods, but I'm not sure if its getting into those methods, I have System.outs in them and they are not being written to the console, but I don't see any exceptions being thrown by the parse method, I get to the last line in the code, where I print out "done parsing", any ideas what's going on? thanks in advance

Answer 1

ContentHandler contentHandler = new DefaultHandler();
xr.setContentHandler(contentHandler);You're creating a new DefaultHandler() to recieve the parser events, not whatever object you've implemented the ContentHandler methods in yourself.
Pete