Read this article on SAX parsing (it is old but still valid), pay particular attention to how the characters method is implemented. It is very unintuitive and trips everybody up, you will get multiple calls to characters for what seems like no good reason.
See the characters() ContentHandler method. Read the javadoc carefully - you can get multiple calls when you might expect only one.
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