Xerces - SAX - ContentHandler question

Question

hi,
I am just trying to work out how to get at variables with a registered and set ContentHandler after the parsing process.
e.g.
XMLReader reader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser");
ContentHandler contentHandler = new CustomContentHandler();
reader.setContentHandler(contentHandler);If I had a method inside my customerHandler,
  public boolean getFlag(){
    return flag;
  }i would have thought this may work but does not,
XMLReader reader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser");
ContentHandler contentHandler = new CustomContentHandler();
reader.setContentHandler(contentHandler);
ContentHandler handler = reader.getContentHandler();
if(handler.getFlag()){
....process
}else{
  ....do something else
}is something like this possible.
I know all logic can go in the handler, but acn this be done?
jp.

Answer 1

ahhh!!!
I probably would have got round to thinking to do that,
I tried CustomerContentHandler handler = (ContentHandler)reader.getContentHandler();
the reason I want to do it this way was just to keep logic native to the xml processing in the Handler, and then send a msg back to the web service client, depending on what went on in the handler, for example,
public class MyWebService{
  XMLReader reader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser");
ContentHandler contentHandler = new CustomContentHandler();
reader.setContentHandler(contentHandler);
reader.parse("my sax input source")
CustomContentHandler handler = (CustomContentHandler) reader.getContentHandler();
if(handler.getFlag()){
  build msg response
}else{
   build other msg response
return messageResponse;
}I'm not sure if I could have send the messageResponse from within the ContentHandler ?