PARSE-STATUS attribute

The current status of a SAX parse.

Data type: INTEGER

Access: Read-only

Applies to: SAX-reader object handle

The default value is SAX-UNINITIALIZED.

The values that PARSE-STATUS can assume are described in the following table.

PARSE-STATUS attribute values
This value . . . Indicates . . .
SAX-UNINITIALIZED No parsing has occurred.
SAX-RUNNING Parsing has begun.
SAX-COMPLETE Parsing has begun and one of the following has occurred:
  • The parser has determined that there are no more tokens in the XML source.
  • The application has stopped the parser by calling the STOP-PARSING( ) method.
SAX-PARSER-ERROR One of the following has occurred:
  • The parser could not start or could not continue. Perhaps the parser could not be loaded, the XML source could not be found, the XML source was invalid, etc.
  • The parser started, but a callback executed a RETURN ERROR statement.