Enabling XML documents for globalization

  /**
   * Create a properties file using the specified XML subdocument based on the lookup
   * keys of the argument table.
   */
  public void processSubDocument(String uri, Vector translatedKeys)
  {
    setTranslatedKeys(translatedKeys);
    
    SAXParser parser = new SAXParser();
    parser.setContentHandler(this);
    parser.setErrorHandler(new SAXErrorHandler());
    try
    {
      parser.parse(uri);
    }
    catch (SAXException e)
    {
      MessageLogger.logMessage(MessageCodes.SAX_EXCEPTION, true, false, e);
      Exception embeddedException = e.getException();
      MessageLogger.logMessage(MessageCodes.JAVA_EXCEPTION, true, false, embeddedException);
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
      MessageLogger.logMessage(MessageCodes.JAVA_EXCEPTION, true, true, e);
    }
    return writePropertiesFileFromTable(getTranslatedStrings());
  }

  /**
   * Handle the start element event.
   * 
   * See if the element parsed was referenced in the main XML document.  If so,
   * set a flag to catch it in the characters event and remember the tag.
   */
  public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String rawName, Attributes attrs)
  {
    if (getTranslatedKeys().containsValue(localName))
    {
      isTargetKey = true;
      currentLookupKey = localName;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Handle the characters event.
   * 
   * Check the flag to see if the element for this data was referenced in the 
   * main XML document.  If so, grab the data and save it as a string 
   * with its element tag as the key.
   */
  public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length)
  {
    if (isTargetKey)
    {
      String translation = (new String(ch, start, length)).trim();
      getTranslatedStrings().put(currentLookupKey, translation);
      isTargetKey = false;
      currentLookupKey = null;
    }
  }