question: public void characters ( org . w3c . dom . Node node ) throws org . xml . sax . SAXException { flushPending ( ) ; String data = node . getNodeValue ( ) ; if ( data != null ) { final int length = data . length ( ) ; if ( length > m_charsBuff . length ) { m_charsBuff = new char [ length * 2 + 1 ] ; } data . getChars ( 0 , length , m_charsBuff , 0 ) ; characters ( m_charsBuff , 0 , length ) ; } }
target:  This method gets the nodes value as a String and uses that String as if it were an input character notification.