[jdom-interest] Building a small portion of a document

[Laurent Bihanic]

Hi,

You might be interested with org.jdom.contrib.input.scanner.ElementScanner (in 
JDOM's contrib module) which is a SAX filter that let you register XPath 
expressions to match elements and notifies listeners when an element has been 
build.
In your case:
    ElementScanner f = new ElementScanner();
    f.addElementListener(myListener, "b");  // Listens for all <b> elements
    f.parse(source);

ElementListener defines a single method elementMatched(String path, Element e).

Although it was not intended for this purpose, you listener could throw a 
JDOMException to abort the parse. In the above example, it would result in 
f.parse() throwing a SAXException wrapping the JDOMException thrown by the 
listener.

If you don't want to process JDOM elements or if your element structure is 
simple, you can achieve the same result by implementing your own SAX 
ContentHandler and throw a specific subclass of SAXException.

Hope this helps,

Laurent

travis at thinkvirtual.com wrote:
> I am wondering if you can build a document from a certain element in an xml stream and have it stop building at the end of that element...
> 
> ex: 
> <a>
>  <b> // start build here at element b
>    <c>text</c>
>  </b> // end build here
> </a>
> 
> So this would totally skip the A, but at the sametime wouldn't throw the improper format exception.  Now I realize this is a SAXException, so is there anyway to do that with SAX?
> 
> Travis Reeder
> Chief Software Architect
> www.ThinkVirtual.com
> 
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