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From: Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@-----.--->
To: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@-----.--->
Date: 5/31/2008 12:54:00 AM

Andrew Welch wrote:
> 2008/5/18 Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@g...>:
>   
>> I need to process some elements in a SAX filter only when a condition
>> occurs. The problem that this condition occurs later, and after all the
>> events for the elements I need to process are fired. For example:
>>     
>
> In the past when I've had this requirement I've either pushed all the
> events onto a stack until the condition comes along, or just parsed
> the document twice.
>
>   
How did you push the event on the stack? What object did you use to 
store the events?

>> I need to know if someone has a better and easier idea ?
>>     
>
> In Java 6 (or StAX in previous versions) you can peek() ahead - check
> the future events before they are fired for real:
>
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/stream/XMLEventReader.html#peek()
>
>
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