code: public void characters(org.w3c.dom.Node node)
          throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
      {
          flushPending();
          String data = node.getNodeValue();
          if (data != null)
          {
              final int length = data.length();
              if (length > m_charsBuff.length)
              {
                  m_charsBuff = new char[length * 2 + 1];
              }
              data.getChars(0, length, m_charsBuff, 0);
              characters(m_charsBuff, 0, length);
          }
      }
docs: This method gets the nodes value as a String and uses that String as if
  it were an input character notification.
  @param node the Node to serialize
  @throws org.xml.sax.SAXException