LexicalHandler Example

import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.xml.sax.ext.*;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.*;
import java.io.IOException;


public class SAXCommentReader implements LexicalHandler {

  public void startDTD(String name, String publicId, String systemId)
   throws SAXException {}
  public void endDTD() throws SAXException {}
  public void startEntity(String name) throws SAXException {}
  public void endEntity(String name) throws SAXException {}
  public void startCDATA() throws SAXException {}
  public void endCDATA() throws SAXException {}

  public void comment (char[] text, int start, int length)
   throws SAXException {

    String comment = new String(text, start, length);
    System.out.println(comment);

  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    // set up the parser
    XMLReader parser;
    try {
      parser = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
    }
    catch (SAXException e) {
      try {
        parser = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(
         "org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser");
      }
      catch (SAXException e2) {
        System.err.println("Error: could not locate a parser.");
        return;
      }
    }

    // turn on comment handling
    try {
      parser.setProperty(
       "http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler",
       new SAXCommentReader()
      );
    }
    catch (SAXNotRecognizedException e) {
      System.err.println(
       "Installed XML parser does not provide lexical events...");
      return;
    }
    catch (SAXNotSupportedException e) {
      System.err.println(
       "Cannot turn on comment processing here");
      return;
    }

    if (args.length == 0) {
      System.out.println("Usage: java SAXCommentReader URL1 URL2...");
    }

    // start parsing...
    for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {

      try {
        parser.parse(args[i]);
      }
      catch (SAXParseException e) { // well-formedness error
        System.out.println(args[i] + " is not well formed.");
        System.out.println(e.getMessage()
         + " at line " + e.getLineNumber()
         + ", column " + e.getColumnNumber());
      }
      catch (SAXException e) { // some other kind of error
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
      }
      catch (IOException e) {
        System.out.println("Could not check " + args[i]
         + " because of the IOException " + e);
      }

    }

  }

}