A question on SAXParser

[Dhiren Joshi]

Hi Everyone ,
I have a simple XML which I need to pull a node out data-assoc.
<esrv><data><query><data-assoc><table>TableName</table><view><col>a</col><col>b</col></view><data-assoc><query><data><esrv>
data-assoc .
This is really a big XML which has lot of values in attributes and lots more tags which I have omitted and has already been implemented by previous programmer in SAXParser so I dont want to break this code by introducing DOM Parser which would solve this problem very easily.
I also dont want to mix a DOM and a SAXParser so I have to do this with a SAXParser for now.
Can some one tell me the fastest way to get that node using SAXParser(data-assoc) or do I need to read each tag step by step and keep on appending to the value to finally give the entire tree under data-assoc .
Thanks every one
Dhiren

[Lasse Koskela]

I'm afraid the "best" solution depends on how the existing code is implemented (and I know SAX handlers can get very ugly...).

[William Brogden]

Im not real clear on what you mean by pulling out the node.
Generally your SAX processing code would watch for the node of interest in the startElement method - when the one you want comes along, set some sort of flag and start processing all events until the matching endElement method is called.
What do you want to do to the data-assoc node?
Bill