SAX parsing - efficient way to get text nodes

Question

Given this XML snippet

   
      Gambardella, Matthew


        

Answer 1

public void startElement(String strNamespaceURI, String strLocalName,
      String strQName, Attributes al) throws SAXException {
       if(strLocalName.equalsIgnoreCase("HIT"))
       {
            String output1 = al.getValue("NAME");
          //this will work but how can we parse if NAME="abc" only     ?
       }

   }

Answer 2

That's the usual way to do it with SAX.

Just beware that characters() may be called more than once per tag. See this question for more info. Here is a complete example.

Otherwise you could give a try to StAX.