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  *      Authors: Jivka Bojilova
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  *    Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the
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  *               National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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  *      Created: 2000 April 5
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  * October Meeting SDSC, 2000
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<TITLE>Metacat</TITLE>
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      <td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">XML Parsing with SAX</p></td>
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  <P>SAX, the <i>Simple API for XML</i>, is 
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  a standard interface for event-based XML parsing. The SAX API provides implemented 
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  interfaces for many different XML parsers. Metacat requires a SAX2 
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  API/Java1.2 with any SAX2-compatible XML parser.
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  <P>To avoid tying Metacat to any specific SAX parser, XMLReaderFactory is used
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  as the SAX interface to Metacat for easy plugability of parsers. The SAX parser
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  used must be set in the <a href="./properties.html">Metacat Properties</a> file.</p>
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  <p>The following is an example of instatiating a parser for Metacat.</p>
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  <PRE>
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  XMLReader parser = null;
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  // Set up the SAX document handlers for parsing
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  try {
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      ContentHandler chandler   = new DBSAXHandler(conn, action, docid, user);
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      EntityResolver dbresolver = new DBEntityResolver(conn, (DBSAXHandler)chandler);
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      DTDHandler dtdhandler     = new DBDTDHandler(conn);
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      // Get an instance of the parser
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      MetacatUtil util = new MetacatUtil();
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      // Get the class name of SAX driver from some XML parser like:
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      // org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser
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      <span class="emphasis">String parserName = util.getOption("saxparser");</span>
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      // Given a class name, this method attempts to load and instantiate the class as an XML reader
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      <span class="emphasis">parser = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(parserName);</span>
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      // Turn off validation
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      parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", false);
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      parser.setProperty("http://xml.org/sax/properties/declaration-handler", chandler);
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      parser.setProperty("http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler", chandler);
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      // Set Handlers in the parser to receive XML parsing events
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      parser.setContentHandler((ContentHandler)chandler);
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      parser.setEntityResolver((EntityResolver)dbresolver);
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      parser.setDTDHandler((DTDHandler)dtdhandler);
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      parser.setErrorHandler((ErrorHandler)chandler);
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  } catch (SAXException saxe) {
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      throw saxe;
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  }
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