question: @ Override public void startElement ( QName element , XMLAttributes attributes , Augmentations augs ) throws XNIException { try { if ( fDocumentHandler != null ) { fAttributesProxy . setAttributes ( attributes ) ; fDocumentHandler . startElement ( element . rawname , fAttributesProxy ) ; } if ( fContentHandler != null ) { if ( fNamespaces ) { startNamespaceMapping ( ) ; int len = attributes . getLength ( ) ; if ( ! fNamespacePrefixes ) { for ( int i = len - 1 ; i >= 0 ; -- i ) { attributes . getName ( i , fQName ) ; if ( ( fQName . prefix == XMLSymbols . PREFIX_XMLNS ) || ( fQName . rawname == XMLSymbols . PREFIX_XMLNS ) ) { attributes . removeAttributeAt ( i ) ; } } } else if ( ! fXMLNSURIs ) { for ( int i = len - 1 ; i >= 0 ; -- i ) { attributes . getName ( i , fQName ) ; if ( ( fQName . prefix == XMLSymbols . PREFIX_XMLNS ) || ( fQName . rawname == XMLSymbols . PREFIX_XMLNS ) ) { fQName . prefix = "" ; fQName . uri = "" ; fQName . localpart = "" ; attributes . setName ( i , fQName ) ; } } } } fAugmentations = augs ; String uri = element . uri != null ? element . uri : "" ; String localpart = fNamespaces ? element . localpart : "" ; fAttributesProxy . setAttributes ( attributes ) ; fContentHandler . startElement ( uri , localpart , element . rawname , fAttributesProxy ) ; } } catch ( SAXException e ) { throw new XNIException ( e ) ; } }
target:  The start of an element. If the document specifies the start element by using an empty tag, then the startElement method will immediately be followed by the endElement method, with no intervening methods.