XMLStreamReader and a real stream
- by Yuri Ushakov
Update There is no ready XML parser in Java community which can do NIO and XML parsing. This is the closest I found, and it's incomplete: http://wiki.fasterxml.com/AaltoHome
I have the following code:
InputStream input = ...;
XMLInputFactory xmlInputFactory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
XMLStreamReader streamReader = xmlInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(input, "UTF-8");
Question is, why does the method #createXMLStreamReader() expects to have an entire XML document in the input stream? Why is it called a "stream reader", if it can't seem to process a portion of XML data? For example, if I feed:
<root>
<child>
to it, it would tell me I'm missing the closing tags. Even before I begin iterating the stream reader itself. I suspect that I just don't know how to use a XMLStreamReader properly. I should be able to supply it with data by pieces, right? I need it because I'm processing a XML stream coming in from network socket, and don't want to load the whole source text into memory.
Thank you for help,
Yuri.
