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Tip: Achieving vendor independence with SAX

How to use SAX and a SAX helper class to achieve vendor independence

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Listing 1. Directly interacting with an XMLReader implementation class (parser dependent) 


// Obtain an instance of an XMLReader implementation
  XMLReader parser = new org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser();
// Do normal parsing tasks
parser.setContentHandler(new MyContentHandler());
parser.parse(new InputSource("file:///usr/local/projects/xml/test.xml");

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