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Document Object Model (DOM) Parser

When you use the DOM API to parse an XML document, a tree structure representing the XML document is built in memory. You can then analyze the nodes of the tree to discover the XML contents.

Building a DOM Tree

The mechanism for instantiating a DOM parser is very similar to that for a SAX parser. A new instance of a DocumentBuilderFactory is obtained that is used to create a new DocumentBuilder.

The parse() method is called on this DocumentBuilder object to return an object that conforms to the public Document interface. This object represents the XML document tree. The following code fragment creates a DOM parser and reads the XML document from a file supplied as a command-line argument:

 DocumentBuilderFactory ...