About Java Xmleventreader

Recently I ' m dealing with a source code data mining project, and I has to use XML in it. But something confusing happens to me. So I searched on Google and finally it got clear.

In this project, I use Event Iterator API of streaming API for XML (StaX) to parse the XML files. I found a wonderful tutorial here. It really helped me a lot, thanks Lars.

But there is one thing the tutorial missed. Since Xmleventreader works as streaming, it cannot get all data from a event by only reading once. For example, when the content of a node (data between a start element and an end element) contains < or > (tagged by SAX, ' < ' and ' > ' originally '), by calling event.asCharacters().getData() , only characters before these is fetched. If you want to get them all, a loop should is used here.

About Java Xmleventreader