Java XML Parse File parseXMLFile(final File xmlFile)

Description

Parses contents of given XML file and returns DOM Object

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
fileName	Path of XML file

Exception

Parameter	Description
ParserConfigurationException	an exception
SAXException	an exception
IOException	an exception

Declaration

public static Document parseXMLFile(final File xmlFile)
        throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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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 {
    /**
     * Parses contents of given XML file and returns DOM Object
     * @param fileName Path of XML file 
     * @return
     * @throws ParserConfigurationException
     * @throws SAXException
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static Document parseXMLFile(final File xmlFile)
            throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException {

        if (xmlFile == null)
            return null;

        Document doc = null;
        DocumentBuilder docBuilder;
        DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        docBuilderFactory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
        docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();

        doc = docBuilder.parse(xmlFile);
        return doc;
    }
}

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