Xerces-C Sample 2: SAXPrint

SAXPrint

SAXPrint uses the SAX APIs to parse an XML file and print it back. Do note that the output of this sample is not exactly the same as the input (in terms of whitespaces, first line), but the output has the same information content as the input.

Building on Windows

Load the xerces-c1_4_0-win32\samples\Projects\Win32\VC6\samples.dsw Microsoft Visual C++ workspace inside your MSVC IDE. Then build the project marked SAXPrint.

Building on UNIX

cd xerces-c1_4_0-linux/samples
./runConfigure -p<platform> -c<C_compiler> -x<C++_compiler>
cd SAXPrint
gmake

This will create the object files in the current directory and the executable named SAXPrint in 'xerces-c1_4_0-linux/bin' directory.

To delete all the generated object files and executables, type

gmake clean

Running SAXPrint

The SAXPrint sample parses an XML file and prints out the contents again in XML (some loss occurs). To run SAXPrint, enter the following

SAXPrint <XML file>

The following parameters may be set from the command line

Usage: SAXPrint [options] file
This program prints the data returned by the various SAX
handlers for the specified input file. Options are NOT case
sensitive.

Options:
    -u=xxx      Handle unrepresentable chars [fail | rep | ref*]
    -v=xxx      Validation scheme [always | never | auto*]
    -n          Enable namespace processing.
    -x=XXX      Use a particular encoding for output (LATIN1*).
    -?          Show this help

  * = Default if not provided explicitly

The parser has intrinsic support for the following encodings:
    UTF-8, USASCII, ISO8859-1, UTF-16[BL]E, UCS-4[BL]E,
    WINDOWS-1252, IBM1140, IBM037

-u=fail will fail when unrepresentable characters are encountered
-u=rep will replace with the substitution character for that codepage
-u=ref will report the character as a reference

-v=always will force validation
-v=never will not use any validation
-v=auto will validate if a DOCTYPE declaration is present in the XML document

Here is a sample output from SAXPrint

cd xerces-c1_4_0-linux/samples/data
SAXPrint -v=always personal.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="LATIN1"?>
<personnel>

  <person id="Big.Boss">
    <name><family>Boss</family> <given>Big</given></name>
    <email>chief@foo.com</email>
    <link subordinates="one.worker two.worker three.worker
	                       four.worker five.worker"></link>
  </person>

  <person id="one.worker">
    <name><family>Worker</family> <given>One</given></name>
    <email>one@foo.com</email>
    <link manager="Big.Boss"></link>
  </person>

  <person id="two.worker">
    <name><family>Worker</family> <given>Two</given></name>
    <email>two@foo.com</email>
    <link manager="Big.Boss"></link>
  </person>

  <person id="three.worker">
    <name><family>Worker</family> <given>Three</given></name>
    <email>three@foo.com</email>
    <link manager="Big.Boss"></link>
  </person>

  <person id="four.worker">
    <name><family>Worker</family> <given>Four</given></name>
    <email>four@foo.com</email>
    <link manager="Big.Boss"></link>
  </person>

  <person id="five.worker">
    <name><family>Worker</family> <given>Five</given></name>
    <email>five@foo.com</email>
    <link manager="Big.Boss"></link>
  </person>

</personnel>

SAXPrint does not reproduce the original XML file. SAXPrint and DOMPrint produce different results because of the way the two APIs store data and capture events.

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