public void startElement()

in core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jelly/parser/XMLParser.java [1195:1260]
56 lines of code
10 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public void startElement(
        String namespaceURI,
        String localName,
        String qName,
        Attributes list)
        throws SAXException {

        try {
            // add check to ensure namespace URI is "" for no namespace
            if ( namespaceURI == null ) {
                namespaceURI = "";
            }

            // if this is a tag then create a script to run it
            // otherwise pass the text to the current body
            TagScript newTagScript = createTag(namespaceURI, localName, list);
            if (newTagScript == null) {
                newTagScript = createStaticTag(namespaceURI, localName, qName, list);
            }
            tagScript = newTagScript;
            tagScriptStack.add(tagScript);
            if (tagScript != null) {
                // set the line number details
                if ( locator != null ) {
                    tagScript.setLocator(locator);
                }
                // sets the file name element names
                if (fileName != null)
                	tagScript.setFileName(fileName);
                tagScript.setElementName(qName);
                tagScript.setLocalName(localName);

                if (textBuffer.length() > 0) {
                    addTextScript(textBuffer.toString());
                    textBuffer.setLength(0);
                }
                script.addScript(tagScript);
                // start a new body
                scriptStack.push(script);
                script = new ScriptBlock();
                tagScript.setTagBody(script);
            }
            else {
                // XXXX: might wanna handle empty elements later...
                textBuffer.append("<");
                textBuffer.append(qName);
                int size = list.getLength();
                for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
                    textBuffer.append(" ");
                    textBuffer.append(list.getQName(i));
                    textBuffer.append("=");
                    textBuffer.append("\"");
                    textBuffer.append(list.getValue(i));
                    textBuffer.append("\"");
                }
                textBuffer.append(">");
            }
        }
        catch (SAXException e) {
            throw e;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            log.error( "Caught exception: " + e, e );
            throw new SAXException( "Runtime Exception: " + e, e );
        }
    }