To me it sounds like you are not using the file the way XML was
intended, and possibly, you shouldn't try to parse with an XML parser
but rather a proprietary "data file" parser.
(See below)

At 2006-06-20 08:49, Tobias Thierer wrote:
>I've looked at jdom-contrib which provides an ElementListener interface, but
>that one's elementMatched() method is only called *after* the element
>(including the close tag) has been fully read. All the classes like
>SAXBuilder etc. only seem to handle events that come from the parser, but
>what I want to do is change the events that the parser reports.

Please note that JDOM is not itself a parser, but uses the underlying
SAX parser, such as Xerces. If you are looking into customized
parsing, you better look at the underlying parser.

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