Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2011 Dipanjan Das * Language Technologies Institute, * Carnegie Mellon University, * All Rights Reserved. * * XmlUtils.java is part of SEMAFOR 2.0. * * SEMAFOR 2.0 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the * Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * SEMAFOR 2.0 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * See the GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along * with SEMAFOR 2.0. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ******************************************************************************/ import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { public static Document parseXmlData(String xmlData, boolean validating) { try { // Create a builder factory DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(validating); // Create the builder and parse the file Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xmlData))); return doc; } catch (SAXException e) { // A parsing error occurred; the xml input is not valid System.err.println("SAXException in parsing XML data, will return null doc"); e.printStackTrace(); } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { System.err.println("ParserConfigurationException in parsing XML data, will return null doc"); e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.println("IOException in parsing XML data, will return null doc"); e.printStackTrace(); } return null; } }