SaxHandlerClass.java

import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;

public class SaxHandlerClass extends DefaultHandler
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        System.out.println("start...");
        SaxHandlerClass saxhandler = new SaxHandlerClass();
        saxhandler.read(args[0]);
    }

    public void read(String fileName) throws Exception
    {
        XMLReader readerObj = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(
        "org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser");
        readerObj.setContentHandler(this);
        readerObj.parse(fileName);
    }

    public void startDocument() throws SAXException
    { System.out.println("parsing start ... "); }

    public void endDocument() throws SAXException
    { System.out.println("parsing end."); }
    
    public void startElement(String uri, String localName,
    String fullName, Attributes atts) throws SAXException
    { System.out.println("Element is " + fullName); }
}