Writing contents of XML-documents with SAX

Question

I have the following problem: I use the SAX-API for parsing an XML- document and to write the contents of several tags into field variables.
For that, I use the method 'characters(char cbuf[], int start, int len' and read the interesting string part
'new String(cbuf,start,len) where cbuf is the character buffer, start the offset in the file and len the length of the string within the tag.
I registered the following problem if I load my application from a jar-file (with a 13kb long xml-file):
The offset runs till 8192 bytes and then resets to 1 and runs up again. If it reaches the offset 8192 bytes (8Kbyte) within a string as content of a tag, the string is split into two: the first till this offset and the second after it.
I have already tried to solve this problem by setting some features of the SAX-parser but I had no success.
The problem does not occur if I start my application from the Oracle-JDeveloper.
Is there anyone who has an idea? I am glad about any information or hint which might a help for me.
Thank you.

Answer 1

From the javadocs for org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.characters(char[] ch,
int start,
int length)
The Parser will call this method to report each chunk of character data. SAX parsers may return all contiguous character data in a single chunk, or they may split it into several chunks; however, all of the characters in any single event must come from the same external entity so that the Locator provides useful information.
To get around this.
- Initialize a StringBuffer field in startElement().
characters = new StringBuffer();- Each time characters() is called, append the section of the char[] to the StringBuffer.
characters.append(buf, offset, len);- Work with the entire resulting value in endElement().
-Scott
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