Parsing with JDOM
import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import org.jdom.Document; import org.jdom.JDOMException; import org.jdom.adapters.XercesDOMAdapter; import org.jdom.input.DOMBuilder; import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter; public class JDOMCreateExample { private static DOMBuilder builder = null; public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException { XercesDOMAdapter xercAdapter = new XercesDOMAdapter(); org.w3c.dom.Document w3Dom = xercAdapter.getDocument(new FileInputStream("games.xml"), false); builder = new DOMBuilder("org.jdom.adapters.XercesDOMAdapter"); Document doc = builder.build(w3Dom); } }