Event Codes

• The XMLStreamConstants interface defines the int event codes returned by next() to tell you what kind of node the parser read.

• 17 event codes:

  • XMLStreamConstants.START_DOCUMENT

  • XMLStreamConstants.END_DOCUMENT

  • XMLStreamConstants.START_ENTITY

  • XMLStreamConstants.END_ENTITY

  • XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT

  • XMLStreamConstants.END_ELEMENT

  • XMLStreamConstants.ATTRIBUTE

  • XMLStreamConstants.CHARACTERS

  • XMLStreamConstants.CDATA

  • XMLStreamConstants.SPACE

  • XMLStreamConstants.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION

  • XMLStreamConstants.COMMENT

  • XMLStreamConstants.ENTITY_REFERENCE

  • XMLStreamConstants.NOTATION_DECLARATION

  • XMLStreamConstants.ENTITY_DECLARATION

  • XMLStreamConstants.NAMESPACE

  • XMLStreamConstants.DTD

• Depending on what the event is, different methods are available on the XMLStreamReader