1.28. Terminating the Filtering Process

  1. To terminate the Smooks filtering process before the end of the message is reached, add the <core:terminate> configuration to the Smooks settings. (This works for SAX and is not needed for DOM.)
    Here is an example configuration that terminates filtering at the end of the message's customer fragment: 
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
<smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd" 
   xmlns:core="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/smooks-core-1.3.xsd">

    <!-- Visitors... -->
    <core:terminate onElement="customer" />

</smooks-resource-list>
  2. To terminate at the beginning of a message (on the visitBefore event), use this code: 
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
<smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd" 
   xmlns:core="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/smooks-core-1.3.xsd">

   <!-- Visitors... -->

   <core:terminate onElement="customer" terminateBefore="true" />

</smooks-resource-list>