Sax parsing and encoding

Question

I have a contact that is experiencing trouble with SAX when parsing RSS and Atom files. According to him, it\'s as if text coming from the Item elements is truncated at an a

Answer 1

The characters() method is not guaranteed to give you the complete character content of a text element in one pass - the full text may span buffer boundaries. You need to buffer the characters yourself between the start and end element events.

e.g.

StringBuilder builder;

public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes atts) {
   builder = new StringBuilder();
}

public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) {
   builder.append(ch,start,length);
}

public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) {
  String theFullText = builder.toString();
}