Trouble listing elements in an XML

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Hi all,

I'm pretty new to this XML parsing. I've got the hang of most of it. However, there is something that bugs me and I can't figure it out. I'm trying to follow this simple tutorial from IBM, where the sample xml file is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<surveys>
    <response username="bob">
        <question subject="appearance">A</question>
        <question subject="communication">B</question>
        <question subject="ship">A</question>
        <question subject="inside">D</question>
        <question subject="implant">B</question>
    </response>
    <response username="sue">
        <question subject="appearance">C</question>
        <question subject="communication">A</question>
        <question subject="ship">A</question>
        <question subject="inside">D</question>
        <question subject="implant">A</question>
    </response>
        <response username="carol">
        <question subject="appearance">A</question>
        <question subject="communication">C</question>
        <question subject="ship">A</question>
        <question subject="inside">D</question>
        <question subject="implant">C</question>
    </response>
</surveys>

And I've assembled the following code, which seems to run, but it never reports any elements as clearly stated in the tutorial (Pretty much the same code used as well).

import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

public class SAXParser extends DefaultHandler{

    public SAXParser() {
        //System.out.println("Object initiated...");
    }

    @Override
    public void error (SAXParseException e) {
        System.out.println("Error parsing the file: "+e.getMessage());
    }

    @Override
    public void warning (SAXParseException e) {
        System.out.println("Problem parsing the file: "+e.getMessage());
    }

    @Override
    public void fatalError (SAXParseException e) {
        System.out.println("Error parsing the file: "+e.getMessage());
        System.out.println("Cannot continue, exiting...");
        System.exit(1);
    }

    @Override
    public void startDocument() throws SAXException {
        System.out.println("Parsing the file...");
    }

    @Override
    public void startElement(String namespaceURI,
                             String localName,
                             String qName,
                             Attributes atts) throws SAXException {

        System.out.print("Start element: ");
        System.out.println(localName);
        
        if(localName.equals("surveys")) { // Just trying to see if it finds the element at all
            System.out.println(" -- Found surveys");
        }

        for (int att = 0; att < atts.getLength(); att++) {
            String attName = atts.getLocalName(att);
            System.out.println(" " + attName + ": " + atts.getValue(attName));
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        XMLReader saxReader = null;

        try {

            SAXParserFactory parserFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
            parserFactory.setValidating(false);
            SAXParser saxParser = parserFactory.newSAXParser();
            saxReader = saxParser.getXMLReader();
            saxReader.setContentHandler( new SAXParser() );
            saxReader.setErrorHandler( new SAXParser() );
            InputSource xmlfile = new InputSource( args[0] );
            saxReader.parse(xmlfile);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println(e);
            System.exit(1);          
        }
    }
}

The output is like follows:

...
Start element:
Start element:
 username: bob
Start element:
 subject: appearance
Start element:
 subject: communication
Start element:
 subject: ship
Start element:
...

It should say:

Start element: surveys
Start element: response
 username: bob
...

Either I'm doing something wrong in the ParserFactory or in the startElement part

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Best regards
/T

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Ok, I got it all solved in another forum and it turned out that I used the wrong variable. If I interpret the API description correctly, localName is used when using Namespace processing (which I don't?):

localName - The local name (without prefix), or the empty string if Namespace processing is not being performed.
qName - The qualified name (with prefix), or the empty string if qualified names are not available.

Exchanging localName for qName did the trick! *smacking forehead*

Thought I'd let you know.
Thanks!

/T