Java XML Parse File parseXMLFile(File f)

Description

This method parses an XML file and returns an org.w3c.dom.Document

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
f	a parameter

Declaration

public static Document parseXMLFile(File f) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from   w  w w. j  a v  a 2s  . co m*/
 * XMLUtils.java
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 2008 www.integratedmodelling.org
 * Created: Jan 21, 2008
 *
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * This file is part of ThinklabPersistencePlugin.
 * 
 * ThinklabPersistencePlugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * ThinklabPersistencePlugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with the software; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
 * 
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * 
 * @copyright 2008 www.integratedmodelling.org
 * @author    Ioannis N. Athanasiadis (ioannis@athanasiadis.info)
 * @date      Jan 21, 2008
 * @license   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt GNU General Public License v3
 * @link      http://www.integratedmodelling.org
 **/

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class Main {
    /**
     * This method parses an XML file and returns an {@code org.w3c.dom.Document}
     * @param f
     * @return
     */
    public static Document parseXMLFile(File f) {
        Document dom = null;
        //      get the factory
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        try {
            //Using factory get an instance of document builder
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
            //parse using builder to get DOM representation of the XML file
            dom = db.parse(f);
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
            pce.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SAXException se) {
            se.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }
        return dom;
    }
}

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