Preventing Expansion of Entity References While Parsing an XML File : Entities « XML « Java Tutorial

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import java.io.File;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception{
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    factory.setValidating(true);

    // Prevent expansion of entity references
    factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);

    // Create the builder and parse the file
    Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("filename"));
  }

}