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1. How to build an XML document in Java concisely?    stackoverflow.com

I need to build an XML document from a Java object hierarchy. Both the Java classes and the XML format are fixed. So I can't use an XML serializer ...

2. How to construct a new document builder out of an existing builders node?    stackoverflow.com

I have the following code:

DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory_ = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
Document doc_;
DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory_.newDocumentBuilder();
StringReader reader = new StringReader(s);
InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(reader);
doc_ = dBuilder.parse(inputSource);
doc_.getDocumentElement().normalize();

3. XML Document Builder question. Parsing a Input source    forums.oracle.com

After some extensive research on the web, it is found that that you are using an UTF-8 encoded file with byte-order mark (BOM). Java doesn't handle BOMs on UTF-8 files properly, making the three header bytes appear as being part of the document. UTF-8 files with BOMs are commonly generated by tools such as Window's Notepad. This is a known bug ...