Characters not displayed in endElement() of SAX parser

Question

I have received the xml response from the server in the format below.(response edited)

1. Hello 2. World

Hello and World are present in separate lines within the message tag. I am able to display Hello World in characters(). But failed to get the same in endElement().

How do I get the content in multiple lines within the same tag in endElement() of SAX parser.

Answer 1

No, that is correct. characters() is where you are supposed to be getting Hello and World, not endElement() . End element signals the end of a tag and characters gets everything in between the tag.

If you want to do something in endElements() with 1.Hello 2.World then why not create a variable up top? For instance.

private String message = null;

@Override
public void endElement(String uri, String localName,
      String qName)
      throws SAXException {

      System.out.println(message); //or whatever you want to do with message

 }

@Override
public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length)
throws SAXException {
    if(isMessage){   //isMessage is set when you run startElement and it runs into the <message> block. 
        message = new String(ch, start, length);
        isMessage = false;
    }
}