sax parser stringbuilder only returning one line [duplicate]

Answer 1

It's probably because you're not implementing the characters method correctly, see Oracle's tutorial:

Parsers are not required to return any particular number of characters at one time. A parser can return anything from a single character at a time up to several thousand and still be a standard-conforming implementation. So if your application needs to process the characters it sees, it is wise to have the characters() method accumulate the characters in a java.lang.StringBuffer and operate on them only when you are sure that all of them have been found.

Your code is assuming you're getting the entire text for an element in one call, but that's not guaranteed. The characters method needs to accumulate the text found into a StringBuffer (or StringBuilder or other data structure), but the decisions on what to do with the accumulated text need to be somewhere else, such as in the endElement method. It looks like you are setting a flag prematurely in the characters method and causing the rest of the text to be lost.

Answer 2

Here's what worked for me with code messing it up commented out. My parsingDes flag was causing only one append.

@Override
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException {
    if (parsingTitle) {
        if (currentItem != null){
            currentItem.setTitle(new String(ch, start, length));                
        }
    } else if (parsingLink) { 
        if (currentItem != null) {
            currentItem.setLink(new String(ch, start, length));
            parsingLink = false;
        }
    } else if (parsingDes) {       
        if (currentItem != null){// && obj!=null ) {
            obj.append(ch, start, length);
            //parsingDes = false;
        }
    }