KtXml/org.kobjects.ktxml.api/XmlPullParser/nextTag

nextTag

Call next() and return event if it is START_TAG or END_TAG otherwise throw an exception.

It will skip whitespace TEXT before actual tag if any.

essentially it does this

int eventType = next();
if(eventType == TEXT &amp;&amp;  isWhitespace()) {   // skip whitespace
  eventType = next();
}
if (eventType != START_TAG &amp;&amp;  eventType != END_TAG) {
  throw new XmlPullParserException("expected start or end tag", this, null);
}
return eventType;