How to capture an XML node while parsing with SAX

I'm working on a Java Web Start distributor application. It uses a configuration XML which defines how to serve resources to clients. There are some resources which are generated during the requests. I'm processing the main configuration file with a custom SAXParser handler.

In the configuration file i would l开发者_Go百科ike to add an embedded XML definition part which has the servable XML document's root node as a child node.

For example:

<Resources>
  <!-- other resource definitions -->
  <EmbeddedXMLResource mapsForRequest="embedded.xml">
    <HiThere>
      <ThisIsAnEmbeddedXMLDocument/>
    </HiThere>
  </EmbeddedXMLResource>
  <!-- ... -->
</Resources>

I'm wondering if there's any way of reading the <HiThere> node to a DOM document or at least capture the inner contents of <EmbeddedXMLResource> into a String skipping the SAX processing?

I thought about putting the embedded content into a CDATA section. This way i can read the embedded XML as a text node but i'll lose syntax highlighting in editors on embedded nodes.

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Perhaps...

1. On startElement HiThere get the start position in file with the locator
2. On endElement HiThere get the end position also.
3. Open the xml resource with an other Reader, and extract the relevant part as string, and so on.

Funny.