The final step is to get the underlying event stream:
public final static String getEventTypeString(int eventType) { switch (eventType) { case XMLEvent.START_ELEMENT: return "START_ELEMENT"; case XMLEvent.END_ELEMENT: return "END_ELEMENT"; case XMLEvent.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION: return "PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION"; case XMLEvent.CHARACTERS: return "CHARACTERS"; case XMLEvent.COMMENT: return "COMMENT"; case XMLEvent.START_DOCUMENT: return "START_DOCUMENT"; case XMLEvent.END_DOCUMENT: return "END_DOCUMENT"; case XMLEvent.ENTITY_REFERENCE: return "ENTITY_REFERENCE"; case XMLEvent.ATTRIBUTE: return "ATTRIBUTE"; case XMLEvent.DTD: return "DTD"; case XMLEvent.CDATA: return "CDATA"; case XMLEvent.SPACE: return "SPACE"; } return "UNKNOWN_EVENT_TYPE " + "," + eventType; }