Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition

Name

DocumentBuilder

Synopsis

This class defines a high-level API to an underlying DOM parser implementation. Obtain a DocumentBuilder from a DocumentBuilderFactory. After obtaining a DocumentBuilder, you can provide org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler and org.xml.sax.EntityResolver objects, if desired. (These classes are defined by the SAX API but are useful for DOM parsers as well.) You may also want to call isNamespaceAware( ), isXIncludeAware( ) and isValidating( ) to ensure that the parser is configured with the features your application requires. Finally, use one of the parse( ) methods to read an XML document from a stream, file, URL, or org.xml.sax.InputSource object, parse that document, and convert it into a org.w3c.dom.Document tree. Note that DocumentBuilder objects are not typically threadsafe. In Java 5.0, you can call reset( ) to restore the parser to its original state for reuse. Another Java 5.0 method, getSchema( ) returns the Schema object, if any, registered with the DocumentBuilderFactory that created this parser.

If you want to obtain an empty Document object (so that you can build the document tree from scratch, for example) call newDocument( ). Or use getDOMImplementation( ) to obtain a the org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation object of the underlying DOM implementation from which you can also create an empty Document.

See the org.w3c.dom package for information on what you can do with a Document object once you have used a DocumentBuilder to create it.

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