Hi, Neeraj

I forgot if there's a mailing list for sjsxp, so feel free to CC your reply to it.

A question on coalescing events:

Suppose i have the following loop

XMLEventReader eventReader = xmlif.createXMLEventReader(reader); while (eventReader.hasNext()) { XMLEvent currEvent = eventReader.nextEvent(); // do something with the event } }

In this case, i can have multiple CHARACTERS events in a row. I would like to be able to do one of the following: 1. Specify to the parser that i want a single CHARACTERS event. 2. Be able to collect all CHARACTERS events until a non-CHARACTER event comes and then continue.

In the later case, i do not see any function that allows to "push back" an event to the reader. I have come up with the following (quite ugly) code:

XMLEventReader eventReader = xmlif.createXMLEventReader(reader); XMLEvent currEvent = null; boolean toTakeNextEvent = true; while (true) { if (toTakeNextEvent) { if (!eventReader.hasNext()) break; currEvent = eventReader.nextEvent(); } toTakeNextEvent = true;

switch (currEvent.getEventType()) { ... case XMLEvent.CHARACTERS: // start coalescing CHARACTERS events toTakeNextEvent = false; Characters chEvent = (Characters) currEvent; LinkedList<Characters> charEvents = new LinkedList<Characters>(); charEvents.addFirst(chEvent); while (true) { currEvent = eventReader.nextEvent(); if (currEvent.getEventType() != XMLEvent.CHARACTERS) break; charEvents.addLast((Characters) currEvent); } if (!chEvent.isWhiteSpace()) { result.addElementInfo(this .getCharactersInfo(charEvents)); } // do something with charEvents list break; } }

Here, i start pulling the events once i get CHARACTERS and until i get non-CHARACTER event and use boolean variable to decide whether to pull next event from the reader or reuse the previously pulled event.

Is there more elegant way to do this?

And in case you wonder, i do need the coalescing because of the Locator discrepancies between consecutive CHARACTERS events.

Thanks