HandlerBase

public class HandlerBase extends Object
implements EntityResolver DTDHandler DocumentHandler ErrorHandler

This class is deprecated.
This class works with the deprecated DocumentHandler interface. It has been replaced by the SAX2 DefaultHandler class.

Default base class for handlers.

This module, both source code and documentation, is in the Public Domain, and comes with NO WARRANTY. See http://www.saxproject.org for further information.

This class implements the default behaviour for four SAX1 interfaces: EntityResolver, DTDHandler, DocumentHandler, and ErrorHandler. It is now obsolete, but is included in SAX2 to support legacy SAX1 applications. SAX2 applications should use the DefaultHandler class instead.

Application writers can extend this class when they need to implement only part of an interface; parser writers can instantiate this class to provide default handlers when the application has not supplied its own.

Note that the use of this class is optional.

Public Constructor Summary

Public Method Summary

void
characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
Receive notification of character data inside an element.
void
endDocument()
Receive notification of the end of the document.
void
endElement(String name)
Receive notification of the end of an element.
void
error(SAXParseException e)
Receive notification of a recoverable parser error.
void
fatalError(SAXParseException e)
Report a fatal XML parsing error.
void
ignorableWhitespace(char[] ch, int start, int length)
Receive notification of ignorable whitespace in element content.
void
notationDecl(String name, String publicId, String systemId)
Receive notification of a notation declaration.
void
processingInstruction(String target, String data)
Receive notification of a processing instruction.
InputSource
resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId)
Resolve an external entity.
void
setDocumentLocator(Locator locator)
Receive a Locator object for document events.
void
startDocument()
Receive notification of the beginning of the document.
void
startElement(String name, AttributeList attributes)
Receive notification of the start of an element.
void
unparsedEntityDecl(String name, String publicId, String systemId, String notationName)
Receive notification of an unparsed entity declaration.
void
warning(SAXParseException e)
Receive notification of a parser warning.

Inherited Method Summary

Public Constructors

public HandlerBase ()

Public Methods

public void characters (char[] ch, int start, int length)

Receive notification of character data inside an element.

By default, do nothing. Application writers may override this method to take specific actions for each chunk of character data (such as adding the data to a node or buffer, or printing it to a file).

Parameters
ch The characters.
start The start position in the character array.
length The number of characters to use from the character array.
Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

public void endDocument ()

Receive notification of the end of the document.

By default, do nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass to take specific actions at the beginning of a document (such as finalising a tree or closing an output file).

Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

public void endElement (String name)

Receive notification of the end of an element.

By default, do nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass to take specific actions at the end of each element (such as finalising a tree node or writing output to a file).

Parameters
name the element name
Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

public void error (SAXParseException e)

Receive notification of a recoverable parser error.

The default implementation does nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass to take specific actions for each error, such as inserting the message in a log file or printing it to the console.

Parameters
e The warning information encoded as an exception.
Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

public void fatalError (SAXParseException e)

Report a fatal XML parsing error.

The default implementation throws a SAXParseException. Application writers may override this method in a subclass if they need to take specific actions for each fatal error (such as collecting all of the errors into a single report): in any case, the application must stop all regular processing when this method is invoked, since the document is no longer reliable, and the parser may no longer report parsing events.

Parameters
e The error information encoded as an exception.
Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

public void ignorableWhitespace (char[] ch, int start, int length)

Receive notification of ignorable whitespace in element content.

By default, do nothing. Application writers may override this method to take specific actions for each chunk of ignorable whitespace (such as adding data to a node or buffer, or printing it to a file).

Parameters
ch The whitespace characters.
start The start position in the character array.
length The number of characters to use from the character array.
Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

public void notationDecl (String name, String publicId, String systemId)

Receive notification of a notation declaration.

By default, do nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass if they wish to keep track of the notations declared in a document.

Parameters
name The notation name.
publicId The notation public identifier, or null if not available.
systemId The notation system identifier.

public void processingInstruction (String target, String data)

Receive notification of a processing instruction.

By default, do nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass to take specific actions for each processing instruction, such as setting status variables or invoking other methods.

Parameters
target The processing instruction target.
data The processing instruction data, or null if none is supplied.
Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

public InputSource resolveEntity (String publicId, String systemId)

Resolve an external entity.

Always return null, so that the parser will use the system identifier provided in the XML document. This method implements the SAX default behaviour: application writers can override it in a subclass to do special translations such as catalog lookups or URI redirection.

Parameters
publicId The public identifier, or null if none is available.
systemId The system identifier provided in the XML document.
Returns
  • The new input source, or null to require the default behaviour.
Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

public void setDocumentLocator (Locator locator)

Receive a Locator object for document events.

By default, do nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass if they wish to store the locator for use with other document events.

Parameters
locator A locator for all SAX document events.

public void startDocument ()

Receive notification of the beginning of the document.

By default, do nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass to take specific actions at the beginning of a document (such as allocating the root node of a tree or creating an output file).

Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

public void startElement (String name, AttributeList attributes)

Receive notification of the start of an element.

By default, do nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass to take specific actions at the start of each element (such as allocating a new tree node or writing output to a file).

Parameters
name The element type name.
attributes The specified or defaulted attributes.
Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

public void unparsedEntityDecl (String name, String publicId, String systemId, String notationName)

Receive notification of an unparsed entity declaration.

By default, do nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass to keep track of the unparsed entities declared in a document.

Parameters
name The entity name.
publicId The entity public identifier, or null if not available.
systemId The entity system identifier.
notationName The name of the associated notation.

public void warning (SAXParseException e)

Receive notification of a parser warning.

The default implementation does nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass to take specific actions for each warning, such as inserting the message in a log file or printing it to the console.

Parameters
e The warning information encoded as an exception.
Throws
SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.