public static SAXParser newSAXParser(Properties properties) throws SAXNotSupportedException, SAXException, SAXNotRecognizedException, ParserConfigurationException 
{
        try{
            // Use reflection to avoid a build dependency with Xerces.
            //
            // Note that this does not detect Sun's repackaging of 
            // Xerces as com.sun.org.apache.xerces; perhaps it should?
            SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
            if (factory.getClass().getName().startsWith("org.apache.xerces")) {
                isXercesUsed = true;
            }
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            isXercesUsed = false;
        }
        if (isXercesUsed){
            return XercesParser.newSAXParser(properties);
        } else {
            return GenericParser.newSAXParser(properties);
        }
}

Create a new SAXParser