SAX Parser

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

public class AperturaXMLParser extends DefaultHandler {

private String tagName = null;
private String tagValue = null;
private Hashtable xmlTable = new Hashtable();

public Hashtable parse(final String inputXML) {
try {
SAXParserFactory parserFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
parserFactory.setValidating(false);
final SAXParser saxParser = parserFactory.newSAXParser();
final XMLReader reader = saxParser.getXMLReader();
reader.setContentHandler(this);
log4Debug.debug("The InputXml String : ",inputXML);
reader.parse(new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(inputXML.getBytes())));
}
catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
log4Debug.severeStackTrace(e);
} catch (SAXException e) {
log4Debug.severeStackTrace(e);
} catch (IOException e) {
log4Debug.severeStackTrace(e);
}
return xmlTable;
}



public void startElement(final String namespaceURI, final String localname, final String qname, final Attributes atts) throws SAXException {

if (!xmlTable.contains(qname)) {
tagName = qname;
}
}



public void endElement(final String namespaceURI, final String localname, final String qname) throws SAXException {
}


public void characters(final char[] chars, final int start, final int length) throws SAXException {
if (xmlTable.contains(tagName)) {
xmlTable.remove(tagName);
}
tagValue = new String(chars,start,length);
xmlTable.put(tagName,tagValue.trim());
log4Debug.debug(tagName,"---",tagValue.trim());
}
}