The Quintessential Program to Create a DOM Document from an XML File
import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
public class BasicDom {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Document doc = parseXmlFile("infilename.xml", false);
}
// Parses an XML file and returns a DOM document.
// If validating is true, the contents is validated against the DTD
// specified in the file.
public static Document parseXmlFile(String filename, boolean validating) {
try {
// Create a builder factory
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setValidating(validating);
// Create the builder and parse the file
Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File(filename));
return doc;
} catch (SAXException e) {
// A parsing error occurred; the xml input is not valid
} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
} catch (IOException e) {
}
return null;
}
}
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