I'm trying to parse that document with SAX:
<scxml version="1.0" initialstate="start" name="calc">
<datamodel>
<data id="expr" expr="0" />
<data id="res" expr="0" />
</datamodel>
<state id="start">
<transition event="OPER" target="opEntered" />
<transition event="DIGIT" target="operand" />
</state>
<state id="operand">
<transition event="OPER" target="opEntered" />
<transition event="DIGIT" />
</state>
</scxml>
I read all the attributes well, except "initialstate" and "name"...
I get the attributes with the startElement handler, but the size of the attribute list for scxml is zero. Why? How I can overcome that problem?
Edit:
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes){
System.out.println(attributes.getValue("initialstate"));
System.out.println(attributes.getValue("name"));
}
that, when parsing the first tag, doesn't work (prints "null" two times). In fact,
attributes.getLength();
evaluates to zero.
Thanks
I've got a full example working from there and adapted it for your file:
public class SaxParserMain {
/**
* @param args
* @throws SAXException
* @throws ParserConfigurationException
* @throws IOException
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException,
IOException {
SAXParser parser = SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();
CustomHandler handler = new CustomHandler();
parser.parse(new File("file/scxml.xml"), handler);
}
}
and
public class CustomHandler extends DefaultHandler {
@Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes)
throws SAXException {
System.out.println();
System.out.print("<" + qName + "");
if (attributes.getLength() == 0) {
System.out.print(">");
} else {
System.out.print(" ");
for (int index = 0; index < attributes.getLength(); index++) {
System.out.print(attributes.getLocalName(index) + " => "
+ attributes.getValue(index));
}
System.out.print(">");
}
}
@Override
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException {
System.out.print("\n</" + qName + ">");
}
}
The output is:
<scxml version => 1.0initialstate => startname => calc>
<datamodel>
<data id => exprexpr => 0>
</data>
<data id => resexpr => 0>
</data>
</datamodel>
<state id => start>
<transition event => OPERtarget => opEntered>
</transition>
<transition event => DIGITtarget => operand>
</transition>
</state>
<state id => operand>
<transition event => OPERtarget => opEntered>
</transition>
<transition event => DIGIT>
</transition>
</state>
</scxml>
Attributes.getValue()
isn't as simple as it look. The javadoc says:
Look up an attribute's value by XML
qualified (prefixed) name.
So passing in just "initialstate" might not work if there are any namespace complications, since "initialstate" is not technically a qualified name.
I suggest having a play with the other methods on the Attributes
class, such as getValue(int)
, you might have more succes with those.
edit: Another possibility is that this invocation of startElement
isn't referring to the element you think it is. Have you verified that the localName
argument is indeed scxml
, and not something else?