Parse XML file with DOM Parser

In this chapter you will learn:

Parse an XML File with DOM

Parse an XML File with DOM

The following code parses an XML file with DOM parser. From the code we can see that we can create a File object and pass into the DocumentBuilder directly.

import java.io.File;
/*from  j  av a2 s  .  co m*/
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

public class MainClass {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document doc = db.parse(new File("employee.xml"));
  }
}

Here is the employee.xml file.

<data>/*from ja  v  a 2  s . c  om*/
  <employee>
    <name>Tom</name>
    <title>Manager</title>
  </employee>
  <employee>
    <name>Jerry</name>
    <title>Programmer</title>
  </employee>
</data>