parsing multiple root element XML into text

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Alain Ketterlin <alain at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>:

> Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> writes:
>> Sometimes the XML elements come through a pipe as an endless
>> sequence. You can still use the wrapping technique and a SAX parser.
>> However, the other option is to write a tiny XML scanner that
>> identifies the end of each element. Then, you can cut out the
>> complete XML element and hand it over to a DOM parser.
>
> Well maybe, even though I see no point in doing so. If the whole
> transaction is a single document and you need to get sub-elements on
> the fly, just use the SAX parser: there is no need to use a "tiny XML
> scanner" (whatever that is), and building a DOM for a part of the
> document in your SAX handler is easy if needed (for the OP's case a
> simple state machine would be enough, probably).

An example is <URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#XMPP_via_HTTP_and_WebSocket_transports>.

The "document" is potentially infinitely long. The elements are
messages.

The programmer would rather process the elements as DOM trees than
follow the meandering SAX parser.


Marko