Is there a way to Stop or Quit parsing from within a DefaultHandler?

Question

Is there a way to call a quit() function on an SAXParser or XMLReader?

The XML document is only updated every day or so, and I only want the full document to be read if the element has changed.

Within my Default Handler:

@Override
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
throws SAXException {

    if (localName.equals("pubDate")) {
        if (currentValue.equals(mPreviousPubDateValue)) {
                //exit parsing
        }
    } else {
        //keep on parsing
    }


}

The XML document is fairly large, and I'd like to be able to just quit it. DefaultHandler doesn't have any built-ins for stopping the parsing. I could also pass in a reference to the XMLReader, but it also doesn't have a method for stopping itself.

Thanks!

Answer 1

you can throw the SAXException to stop parsing

you can use a subclass of it to ensure the parsing failed because of your decision and not a random parse exception