Create Empty DOM Document : DOM Element « XML « Java Tutorial

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

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

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/**
 * Various XML utilities.
 * 
 * @author simonjsmith, ksim
 * @version 1.1 - ksim - March 6th, 2007 - Added functions regarding streaming
 * @version 1.2 - ksim - March 10th, 2007 - Added functions regarding DOM
 *          manipulation
 */
public class Utils {
  public static Document newEmptyDocument() {
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = null;
    DocumentBuilder builder = null;
    Document ret;

    try {
      factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
      builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

    ret = builder.newDocument();

    return ret;
  }
}