Xml not parsing String as input with sax

Question

I have a string input from which I need to extract simple information, here is the sample xml (from mkyong):

    &l         


        

Answer 1

You call parse with a String as the first parameter. According to the docu that string is interpreted as the URI to your file.

If you want to parse your String directly, you have to transform it to an InputStream in the first place for usage with the parse(InputSource is, DefaultHandler dh) method (docu):

// transform from string to inputstream
ByteArrayInputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.toString().getBytes());
InputSource is = new InputSource();
is.setByteStream(in);

// start parsing
saxParser.parse(xml.toString(), handler);