Java XML Parse String parse(String xml)

Description

Parses a XML document.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
xml	the XML document

Return

DOM

Declaration

public static Document parse(String xml) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;

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

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Parses a XML document.
     * 
     * @param xml the XML document
     * @return DOM
     */
    public static Document parse(String xml) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException {
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document document = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
        removeWhitespaces((Element) document.getChildNodes().item(0));
        return document;
    }

    private static void removeWhitespaces(Element element) {
        NodeList children = element.getChildNodes();
        for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength();) {
            Node n = children.item(i);
            if (n instanceof Element) {
                removeWhitespaces((Element) n);
                ++i;
            } else if (n instanceof Text && ((Text) n).getTextContent().trim().length() == 0) {
                element.removeChild(n);
            } else {
                ++i;
            }
        }
    }
}

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