public static String getName(int eventType) 
{
    switch (eventType) {
      case XMLStreamReader.START_ELEMENT:
        return "START_ELEMENT";
      case XMLStreamReader.END_ELEMENT:
        return "END_ELEMENT";
      case XMLStreamReader.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION:
        return "PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION";
      case XMLStreamReader.CHARACTERS:
        return "CHARACTERS";
      case XMLStreamReader.SPACE:
        return "SPACE";
      case XMLStreamReader.COMMENT:
        return "COMMENT";
      case XMLStreamReader.START_DOCUMENT:
        return "START_DOCUMENT";
      case XMLStreamReader.END_DOCUMENT:
        return "END_DOCUMENT";
      case XMLStreamReader.ENTITY_REFERENCE:
        return "ENTITY_REFERENCE";
      case XMLStreamReader.ATTRIBUTE:
        return "ATTRIBUTE";
      case XMLStreamReader.DTD:
        return "DTD";
      case XMLStreamReader.CDATA:
        return "CDATA";
      case XMLStreamReader.NAMESPACE:
        return "NAMESPACE";
    }
    return "UNKNOWN_EVENT_TYPE";
}

 public static int getType(String val) 
{
    if (val.equals("START_ELEMENT"))
      return XMLStreamReader.START_ELEMENT;
    if (val.equals("SPACE"))
      return XMLStreamReader.SPACE;
    if (val.equals("END_ELEMENT"))
      return XMLStreamReader.END_ELEMENT;
    if (val.equals("PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION"))
      return XMLStreamReader.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION;
    if (val.equals("CHARACTERS"))
      return XMLStreamReader.CHARACTERS;
    if (val.equals("COMMENT"))
      return XMLStreamReader.COMMENT;
    if (val.equals("START_DOCUMENT"))
      return XMLStreamReader.START_DOCUMENT;
    if (val.equals("END_DOCUMENT"))
      return XMLStreamReader.END_DOCUMENT;
    if (val.equals("ATTRIBUTE"))
      return XMLStreamReader.ATTRIBUTE;
    if (val.equals("DTD"))
      return XMLStreamReader.DTD;
    if (val.equals("CDATA"))
      return XMLStreamReader.CDATA;
    if (val.equals("NAMESPACE"))
      return XMLStreamReader.NAMESPACE;
    return -1;
}

 public static String printEvent(XMLStreamReader xmlr) 
{
    StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer();
    b.append("EVENT:[" + xmlr.getLocation().getLineNumber() + "][" +
             xmlr.getLocation().getColumnNumber() + "] ");
    b.append(getName(xmlr.getEventType()));
    b.append(" [");
    switch (xmlr.getEventType()) {
      case XMLStreamReader.START_ELEMENT:
        b.append("< ");
        printName(xmlr, b);
        for (int i = 0; i <  xmlr.getNamespaceCount(); i++) {
          b.append(" ");
          String n = xmlr.getNamespacePrefix(i);
          if ("xmlns".equals(n)) {
            b.append("xmlns=\"" + xmlr.getNamespaceURI(i) + "\"");
          } else {
            b.append("xmlns:" + n);
            b.append("=\"");
            b.append(xmlr.getNamespaceURI(i));
            b.append("\"");
          }
        }
        for (int i = 0; i <  xmlr.getAttributeCount(); i++) {
          b.append(" ");
          printName(xmlr.getAttributePrefix(i),
                    xmlr.getAttributeNamespace(i),
                    xmlr.getAttributeLocalName(i),
                    b);
          b.append("=\"");
          b.append(xmlr.getAttributeValue(i));
          b.append("\"");
        }
        b.append(" >");
        break;
      case XMLStreamReader.END_ELEMENT:
        b.append("< /");
        printName(xmlr, b);
        for (int i = 0; i <  xmlr.getNamespaceCount(); i++) {
          b.append(" ");
          String n = xmlr.getNamespacePrefix(i);
          if ("xmlns".equals(n)) {
            b.append("xmlns=\"" + xmlr.getNamespaceURI(i) + "\"");
          } else {
            b.append("xmlns:" + n);
            b.append("=\"");
            b.append(xmlr.getNamespaceURI(i));
            b.append("\"");
          }
        }
        b.append(" >");
        break;
      case XMLStreamReader.SPACE:
      case XMLStreamReader.CHARACTERS:
        //b.append(xmlr.getText());
        int start = xmlr.getTextStart();
        int length = xmlr.getTextLength();
        b.append(new String(xmlr.getTextCharacters(),
                            start,
                            length));
        break;
      case XMLStreamReader.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION:
        String target = xmlr.getPITarget();
        if (target == null) target = "";
        String data = xmlr.getPIData();
        if (data == null) data = "";
        b.append("< ?");
        b.append(target + " " + data);
        b.append("? >");
        break;
      case XMLStreamReader.CDATA:
        b.append("< ![CDATA[");
        if (xmlr.hasText())
          b.append(xmlr.getText());
        b.append("]] >");
        break;
      case XMLStreamReader.COMMENT:
        b.append("< !--");
        if (xmlr.hasText())
          b.append(xmlr.getText());
        b.append("-- >");
        break;
      case XMLStreamReader.ENTITY_REFERENCE:
        b.append(xmlr.getLocalName() + "=");
        if (xmlr.hasText())
          b.append("[" + xmlr.getText() + "]");
        break;
      case XMLStreamReader.START_DOCUMENT:
        b.append("< ?xml");
        b.append(" version='" + xmlr.getVersion() + "'");
        b.append(" encoding='" + xmlr.getCharacterEncodingScheme() + "'");
        if (xmlr.isStandalone())
          b.append(" standalone='yes'");
        else
          b.append(" standalone='no'");
        b.append("? >");
        break;
    }
    b.append("]");
    return b.toString();
}