Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Research In Motion Limited. All rights reserved. * * This program and the accompanying materials are made available * under the terms of the Eclipse Public License, Version 1.0, * which accompanies this distribution and is available at * * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * */ import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URL; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { /** * open instream for a XML file from URL * * @param the * source url * @return the DOM document */ public static Document openXMLStream(URL url) { try { // Create a builder factory DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); InputStream stream = url.openStream(); // Create the builder and parse the stream Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(stream); return doc; } catch (SAXException e) { // A parsing error occurred; the xml input is not valid } catch (ParserConfigurationException ex) { System.out.println(ex.getMessage()); } catch (IOException ex) { System.out.println(ex.getMessage()); } return null; } }