SAX serialize XML

Question

Hello,
do you know, if there's a Java class which already parses a file via SAX and outputs the whole file on STDOUT or in another file? I know, it seems it makes no sense, but I need to trim a very large XML file at a fixed point (after perhaps 2000 page-Elements) and write the whole content to another file... so I don't think I have to write a class on my own, just put a counter in the start_element() method and see if it's < 2000.
greetings,
Johannes

Answer 1

Maybe something like:
SAXTransformerFactory fac = (SAXTransformerFactory)TransformerFactory.newInstance();
handler = fac.newTransformerHandler();
Transformer t = handler.getTransformer();
t.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");
t.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
handler.setResult(new StreamResult(new FileOutputStream(filename)));but well, I would need to do something like this:
* {@inheritdoc}
public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qName,
      Attributes atts) throws SAXException {
  if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("page") && counter < ARTICLES) {
    counter++;
  if (counter < ARTICLES) {
}