Re: Only part of a string can be retrieved in an element

characters() may be called multiple times [1][2] for contiguous text. Your 
ContentHandler needs to accumulate the text returned in each call of 
characters() until you receive a callback that isn't characters.

[1] 
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/xml/sax/ContentHandler.html#characters(char[],%20int,%20int)
[2] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-sax.html#faq-2

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@xxxxxxxxxx
E-mail: mrglavas@xxxxxxxxxx

Chan Wilson <km_chau88@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06/01/2006 05:53:52 AM:

> Hi,
> 
> I tried to parse a XML file with standard JAXP SAX. However, for the
> following element:
> 
> <SYMBOL SOURCE="SANDP" SOURCETYPE="VENDOR">1104_HK</SYMBOL>
> 
> It always return "04_HK" instead of "1104_HK" (by capturing the 
> "data" in following code fragment).
> 
>     public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int width) throws 
> SAXException {
>         if (currentTagInPage != null && ch != null) {
>             String data = new String(ch, start, width);
> 
> 
> The following are the software component used:
> JDK 1.4.2
> Tomcat 4.1.31
> Xerces Parser 2.8.0
> 
> Is it a bug in Xerces Parser? Please help.
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