Comment Added by : Mark Nelson

Comment Added at : 2011-11-14 20:16:41

Comment on Tutorial : XML and Java - Parsing XML using Java Tutorial By Maggie
The SAX Parser code has a problem for files of greater than 2048 bytes. The SAX Parser only reads in 2048 bytes at a time which could lead to an error if the 2048-byte sections split your element's data. The solution I found is to create your tempVal String (or StringBuffer in my case) in your startElement method call and then add to it in the characters method call.

public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName,
Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
//reset
tempVal = new StringBuffer();
if(qName.equalsIgnoreCase("Employee")) {
//create a new instance of employee
tempEmp = new Employee();
tempEmp.setType(attributes.getValue("type"));
}
}


public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException {
tempVal.append(new String(ch, start, length));
}

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