SAX Parser / Tags And Text Don't Line Up

how to use SAX Parsers. I've looked at a few tutorials and have the generals down. I have an xml file that the parser is trying to read. As you see below, at the start of each element, I add the tag to an arrayList of the tags. I create a stringBuilder to capture the text between tags, this won't work unless it occurs at the end of an element. If it occurs at the start, it never gets the chance to read the text.

This is where the problem occurs. For nested tags, like project, it reads the last nested tags' text and stores it in the text arrayList. Project may be the first indexed tag in the tags arrayList, but project's text is the fourth indexed element of the text arrayList. So when my test print the arrayLists by index, it gets thrown off. I want over tags to store a blank space in the text array, and at the same index of the tag its associated with. How would I do this?

I've tried overwriting the text arrayList, but couldn't get my logic thought out for how to determine if a tag was nested. I always ended up overwriting blank space to each element.

xml file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>na-ata-custom-delivery-bench-code-exercises</groupId>
<artifactId>na-ata-custom-delivery-bench-code-exercises</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

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