How to filter a StAX XMLStreamReader

Question

I need to hook into an API that receives a StAX XMLStreamReader as the input, and filter the supplied stream (change the value of a certain attribute from true to false).

Looked at StreamReaderDelegate , but with that one I'd have to do a lot of coding to keep track of all access paths to the attribute in question.

Is there a better way?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

With StAX, you could use the event API instead and utilize the EventReaderDelegate . The amount of code would be roughly the same though. Using delegates is also the recommended solution, so I'm afraid, there is no significantly better way.