Truncated data

Question

Hi all,
I am facing a problem with my xml SAX parser.
eg:
<tag1>hello there1</tag1>
<tag2>who am i</tag2>
<tag3>whats yr name</tag3>
my parser seem to trucate the characters read so instead of reading "who am i" in the second element, I got instead "am i". For the rest, the data is correct.
overall my xml file size is 21k, this problem occurs in the middle of the file. Data above and below the problematic element is ok. any idea what's the problem? Thanks.

Answer 1

here's how I implemented the SAX parser. Hope that this will provide a clearer picture.
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import java.util.*;
public class MyHandler extends DefaultHandler {
private String currentValue;
private ArrayList list;
public TransactionHandler() {
list = new ArrayList();
public void startElement(java.lang.String namespaceURI,
java.lang.String localName,
java.lang.String qName,
Attributes atts) throws SAXException {
list.add(new Properties());
public void characters(char buf[], int offset, int len) throws SAXException {
currentValue = new String(buf, offset, len);
public void endElement(java.lang.String namespaceURI,
java.lang.String sName,
java.lang.String qName ) throws SAXException {
Properties p = (Properties) list.get(list.size() - 1);
p.put(qName, currentValue.trim());
public ArrayList getlist() {
return this.list;