Comments

• Unlike SAX, JDOM, and DOM, comments don't really require any special treatment, classes, or methods.

import org.xmlpull.v1.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

 
public class CommentPuller {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
        
    if (args.length == 0) {
      System.err.println("Usage: java CommentPuller url" );
      return;   
    }
        
    try {
      XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
      XmlPullParser parser = factory.newPullParser();

      InputStream in;
      try {
        URL u = new URL(args[0]);
        in = u.openStream();
      }
      catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
          // Maybe it's a file name
          in = new FileInputStream(args[0]);
      }
      parser.setInput(in, null);
        
      while (true) {
         int event = parser.nextToken();
         if (event == XmlPullParser.COMMENT) {
             System.out.println(parser.getText());
         }
         else if (event == XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
            break;   
         }
      }           
    }
    catch (XmlPullParserException ex) {
       System.out.println(ex);  
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
      System.out.println("IOException while parsing " + args[0]);   
    }
        
  }

}