StaxReader Event Types
Event types of the xml.StaxReader class.
| 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 a XML start element or empty element node. | <p:elt attr="val"> or <p:elt
attr="val"/> |
| END_ELEMENT | StaxReader cursor points to a XML end element node. | </p:elt> |
| CHARACTERS | StaxReader cursor points to a XML text node. | ... eltA/>This is text<eltB ... |
| CDATA | StaxReader cursor points to a XML CData node. | <![CDATA[<Hello, world!>]]> |
| SPACE | StaxReader cursor points to a XML text node containing only whitespaces. | ... eltA/> <eltB ... |
| COMMENT | StaxReader cursor points to a XML comment node. | <!-- a comment --> |
| DTD | StaxReader cursor points to a DTD string. | <!DOCTYPE A [ <!ELEMENT B (C+)>
]> |
| ENTITY_REFERENCE | StaxReader cursor points to a XML entity reference node. | &ref; |
| PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION | StaxReader cursor points to a XML processing instruction node. | <?target data?> |
| ERROR | StaxReader cursor points to an unexpected XML node. |