The application can use this method to instruct the SAX parser to begin parsing an XML document from any valid input source (a character stream, a byte stream, or a URI).
Applications may not invoke this method while a parse is in progress (they should create a new Parser instead for each additional XML document). Once a parse is complete, an application may reuse the same Parser object, possibly with a different input source.
Parameters:
source
The input source for the top-level of the XML document.
Exceptions:
SAXException
Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.
XMLException
An exception from the parser or client handler code.
Allow an application to register a document event handler.
If the application does not register a document handler, all document events reported by the SAX parser will be silently ignored (this is the default behaviour implemented by HandlerBase).
Applications may register a new or different handler in the middle of a parse, and the SAX parser must begin using the new handler immediately.
Allow an application to register a DTD event handler.
If the application does not register a DTD handler, all DTD events reported by the SAX parser will be silently ignored (this is the default behaviour implemented by HandlerBase).
Applications may register a new or different handler in the middle of a parse, and the SAX parser must begin using the new handler immediately.
Allow an application to register a custom entity resolver.
If the application does not register an entity resolver, the SAX parser will resolve system identifiers and open connections to entities itself (this is the default behaviour implemented in DefaultHandler).
Applications may register a new or different entity resolver in the middle of a parse, and the SAX parser must begin using the new resolver immediately.
Allow an application to register an error event handler.
If the application does not register an error event handler, all error events reported by the SAX parser will be silently ignored, except for fatalError, which will throw a SAXException (this is the default behaviour implemented by HandlerBase).
Applications may register a new or different handler in the middle of a parse, and the SAX parser must begin using the new handler immediately.
Allow an application to register a lexical event handler.
If the application does not register a lexical handler, all events reported by the SAX parser will be silently ignored. (this is the default behaviour implemented by HandlerBase).
Applications may register a new or different handler in the middle of a parse, and the SAX parser must begin using the new handler immediately.