parse xml stream using JAXP SAX api

/*
 * Copyright@ 2011 www.egtry.com
 */

package egtry.xml;


import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.StringBufferInputStream;

import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

public class Sax {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
	  //step 1. get SAXParser
	  SAXParserFactory factory=SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
	  SAXParser saxParser=factory.newSAXParser();
	  
	  //step 2. parse a xml source with its handler
	  String xml="<root><a n=\"1\"></a></root>";
	  InputStream in=new StringBufferInputStream(xml);
	  saxParser.parse(in, new SaxHandler1());
    
	  System.out.println("Done");
  }
  
  public static class SaxHandler1 extends DefaultHandler{
	  
	  @Override
	  public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) {
		  System.out.println("StartElement uri="+uri+", localName="+localName+", qName="+qName);
		  if (attributes.getLength()>0) {
			  for(int i=0; i<attributes.getLength(); i++) {
				  System.out.print(" "+attributes.getQName(i)+"=\""+attributes.getValue(i)+"\"");
			  }
			  System.out.println("\n");
		  }
	  }
  }
}

StartElement uri=, localName=, qName=root
StartElement uri=, localName=, qName=a
 n="1"

Done