StaxReader Event Types

Event types of the xml.StaxReader class.

Table 1. StaxReader event types
Type	Description	XML sample
START_DOCUMENT	StaxReader cursor points to the beginning of the XML document.	`<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>`
END_DOCUMENT	StaxReader cursor has reached the end of the XML document. No additional parsing operation will succeed.
START_ELEMENT	StaxReader cursor points to an XML start element or empty element node.	`<p:elt attr="val">` or `<p:elt attr="val"/>`
END_ELEMENT	StaxReader cursor points to an XML end element node.	`</p:elt>`
CHARACTERS	StaxReader cursor points to an XML text node.	`... eltA/>This is text<eltB ...`
CDATA	StaxReader cursor points to an XML CData node.	`<![CDATA[<Hello, world!>]]>`
SPACE	StaxReader cursor points to an XML text node containing only whitespaces.	`... eltA/> <eltB ...`
COMMENT	StaxReader cursor points to an XML comment node.	`<!-- a comment -->`
DTD	StaxReader cursor points to a DTD string.	`<!DOCTYPE A [ <!ELEMENT B (C+)> ]>`
ENTITY_REFERENCE	StaxReader cursor points to an XML entity reference node.	`&ref;`
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION	StaxReader cursor points to an XML processing instruction node.	`<?target data?>`
ERROR	StaxReader cursor points to an unexpected XML node.