End element isn't detected by Stax

Question

I'm reading a XML file same as below:

<ts>
    <tr comment="" label="tr1">
        <node order="1" label="" />
    </tr>
</ts>

And I expected the below code prints out three e on screen:

XMLInputFactory factory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
XMLStreamReader sr = factory.createXMLStreamReader(new FileReader("test.xml"));

while (sr.hasNext()) {
    int eventType = sr.next();

    if (eventType == XMLStreamReader.START_DOCUMENT) {
        continue;
    } else if (eventType == XMLStreamReader.END_ELEMENT) {
        System.out.println("e");
    } else if (eventType == XMLStreamReader.START_ELEMENT) {
        System.out.println("s");
    }
}

But it doesn't work! Any ideas on how I can resolve the issue?

Note: I think it is related to self-closed-tags, for example: <myTag id="1" />

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

I'm on Windows using JDK 1.7 and am getting the same results as Blaise Doughan:

s
s
s
e
e
e

I don't think it has to do with the <node order="1" label="" /> since the documentation states that:

NOTE: empty element (such as <tag/>) will be reported with two separate events: START_ELEMENT, END_ELEMENT - This preserves parsing equivalency of empty element to <tag></tag>. This method will throw an IllegalStateException if it is called after hasNext() returns false.

Long shot: maybe some other related code may be causing the weird behavior?

bdoughan · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-25T17:32:39.783

The code posted in your question produced the three e for me which is expected. I'm using JDK 1.6 on the Mac.

Demo

You may want to try running the following code to see which end element event you are missing:

import java.io.FileReader;
import javax.xml.stream.*;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        XMLInputFactory factory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
        XMLStreamReader sr = factory.createXMLStreamReader(new FileReader("test.xml"));
        System.out.println(sr.getClass());

        while (sr.hasNext()) {
            int eventType = sr.next();

            if (eventType == XMLStreamReader.START_DOCUMENT) {
                continue;
            } else if (eventType == XMLStreamReader.END_ELEMENT) {
                System.out.println("End Element:    " + sr.getLocalName());
            } else if (eventType == XMLStreamReader.START_ELEMENT) {
                System.out.println("Start Element:  " + sr.getLocalName());
            }
        }
    }

}

Output

Below is the output I get.

class com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl
Start Element:  ts
Start Element:  tr
Start Element:  node
End Element:    node
End Element:    tr
End Element:    ts

What happens if do `System.out.println(sr.getLocalName())` inside the if block for `END_ELEMENT`? — bdoughan, Aug 25 '12 at 17:24
It dosen't go to `END_ELEMENT` block - It never satisfies `if (eventType == XMLStreamReader.END_ELEMENT)` — masoud, Aug 25 '12 at 17:26
Oh! That was a pointless question, at least your test ensured me the problem is not in my stax parsing. — masoud, Aug 25 '12 at 17:41

End element isn't detected by Stax

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