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

Seems you took this example from here . You need to pass a file with absolute path an not a string to method SAXParser.parse(); Look the example closely. The method parse() defined as follows

public void parse(File f,
                  DefaultHandler dh)
           throws SAXException,
                  IOException

If you want to parse a string anyways. There is another method which takes Inputstream.

public void parse(InputStream is,
                  DefaultHandler dh)
           throws SAXException,
                  IOException

Then you need to convert your string to an InputStream. Here is how to do it.