Is there a way to get SAXParser to ignore content of certain elements when parsing?

I have XML of the format:

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<To>"Paul McCartney" <paul.mccartney@hotmail.com></To>
<From>"John Lennon" <john.lennon@yahoo.com></From>
...

The SAXParser throws an exception as soon as it gets to t开发者_如何学Gohe email addresses. It thinks <paul.mccartney@hotmail.com> is an XML element and throws and exception as soon as it encounters the @ symbol. Is there anyway to ignore content of certain elements in Java SAX?

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You could try by overriding org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler.error(), and similar methods, if you're using the DefaultHandler? See also the JavaDoc of org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/org/xml/sax/ErrorHandler.html

But in any way, the XML is invalid. It shouldn't be that way. You could preprocess it and replace < by < and > by > or just wrap the whole <To/> and <From/> content into a <![CDATA[ ]]> block...

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It's not XML so an XML parser won't parse it, if you can get the format changed otherwise your best bet it to roll you own parser specific to this format.