EventFilter (Java SE 25 & JDK 25)
Description: declaration: module: java.xml, package: javax.xml.stream, interface: EventFilter
Keywords: javax.xml.stream.EventFilter interface

# Interface EventFilter

public interface EventFilter
This interface declares a simple filter interface that one can create to filter XMLEventReaders

Since:
  1.6

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `boolean`
  `accept(XMLEvent event)`
  Tests whether this event is part of this stream.

- ## Method Details

  - ### accept

    boolean accept(XMLEvent event)
    Tests whether this event is part of this stream. This method will return true if this filter accepts this event and false otherwise.
    Parameters:
      `event` - the event to test
    Returns:
      true if this filter accepts this event, false otherwise