public abstract Class State

reader object who is the owner of this object. This information is avaiable after init method is called.

Implements org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.characters.

Doc from org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.characters.

Receive notification of character data.

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.

The application must not attempt to read from the array outside of the specified range.

Individual characters may consist of more than one Java char value. There are two important cases where this happens, because characters can't be represented in just sixteen bits. In one case, characters are represented in a Surrogate Pair, using two special Unicode values. Such characters are in the so-called "Astral Planes", with a code point above U+FFFF. A second case involves composite characters, such as a base character combining with one or more accent characters.

Your code should not assume that algorithms using char-at-a-time idioms will be working in character units; in some cases they will split characters. This is relevant wherever XML permits arbitrary characters, such as attribute values, processing instruction data, and comments as well as in data reported from this method. It's also generally relevant whenever Java code manipulates internationalized text; the issue isn't unique to XML.

Note that some parsers will report whitespace in element content using the ignorableWhitespace method rather than this one (validating parsers must do so).

Parameters

buffer:char[]

the characters from the XML document

from:int

the start position in the array

len:int

the number of characters to read from the array

Exceptions

SAXException:

any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception

Implements org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.endPrefixMapping.

Doc from org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.endPrefixMapping.

End the scope of a prefix-URI mapping.

See startPrefixMapping for details. These events will always occur immediately after the corresponding endElement event, but the order of endPrefixMapping events is not otherwise guaranteed.

Parameters

prefix:String

the prefix that was being mapped. This is the empty string when a default mapping scope ends.

Exceptions

SAXException:

the client may throw an exception during processing

Implements org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.ignorableWhitespace.

Doc from org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.ignorableWhitespace.

Receive notification of ignorable whitespace in element content.

Validating Parsers must use this method to report each chunk of whitespace in element content (see the W3C XML 1.0 recommendation, section 2.10): non-validating parsers may also use this method if they are capable of parsing and using content models.

SAX parsers may return all contiguous whitespace 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.

The application must not attempt to read from the array outside of the specified range.

Parameters

buffer:char[]

the characters from the XML document

from:int

the start position in the array

len:int

the number of characters to read from the array

Exceptions

SAXException:

any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception

Implements org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.processingInstruction.

Doc from org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.processingInstruction.

Receive notification of a processing instruction.

The Parser will invoke this method once for each processing instruction found: note that processing instructions may occur before or after the main document element.

A SAX parser must never report an XML declaration (XML 1.0, section 2.8) or a text declaration (XML 1.0, section 4.3.1) using this method.

Like characters(), processing instruction data may have characters that need more than one char value.

Parameters

target:String

the processing instruction target

data:String

the processing instruction data, or null if none was supplied. The data does not include any whitespace separating it from the target

Exceptions

SAXException:

any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception

Implements org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.setDocumentLocator.

Doc from org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.setDocumentLocator.

Receive an object for locating the origin of SAX document events.

SAX parsers are strongly encouraged (though not absolutely required) to supply a locator: if it does so, it must supply the locator to the application by invoking this method before invoking any of the other methods in the ContentHandler interface.

The locator allows the application to determine the end position of any document-related event, even if the parser is not reporting an error. Typically, the application will use this information for reporting its own errors (such as character content that does not match an application's business rules). The information returned by the locator is probably not sufficient for use with a search engine.

Note that the locator will return correct information only during the invocation SAX event callbacks after startDocument returns and before endDocument is called. The application should not attempt to use it at any other time.

Parameters

loc:Locator

an object that can return the location of any SAX document event

Implements org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.skippedEntity.

Doc from org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.skippedEntity.

Receive notification of a skipped entity. This is not called for entity references within markup constructs such as element start tags or markup declarations. (The XML recommendation requires reporting skipped external entities. SAX also reports internal entity expansion/non-expansion, except within markup constructs.)

The Parser will invoke this method each time the entity is skipped. Non-validating processors may skip entities if they have not seen the declarations (because, for example, the entity was declared in an external DTD subset). All processors may skip external entities, depending on the values of the http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities and the http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities properties.

Parameters

name:String

the name of the skipped entity. If it is a parameter entity, the name will begin with '%', and if it is the external DTD subset, it will be the string "[dtd]"

Exceptions

SAXException:

any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception

Implements org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.startDocument.

Doc from org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.startDocument.

Receive notification of the beginning of a document.

The SAX parser will invoke this method only once, before any other event callbacks (except for setDocumentLocator).

Exceptions

SAXException:

any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception

Implements org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.startPrefixMapping.

Doc from org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.startPrefixMapping.

Begin the scope of a prefix-URI Namespace mapping.

The information from this event is not necessary for normal Namespace processing: the SAX XML reader will automatically replace prefixes for element and attribute names when the http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces feature is true (the default).

There are cases, however, when applications need to use prefixes in character data or in attribute values, where they cannot safely be expanded automatically; the start/endPrefixMapping event supplies the information to the application to expand prefixes in those contexts itself, if necessary.

Note that start/endPrefixMapping events are not guaranteed to be properly nested relative to each other: all startPrefixMapping events will occur immediately before the corresponding startElement event, and all endPrefixMapping events will occur immediately after the corresponding endElement event, but their order is not otherwise guaranteed.

There should never be start/endPrefixMapping events for the "xml" prefix, since it is predeclared and immutable.

Parameters

prefix:String

the Namespace prefix being declared. An empty string is used for the default element namespace, which has no prefix.

uri:String

the Namespace URI the prefix is mapped to

Exceptions

SAXException:

the client may throw an exception during processing