Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static Document getDocumentRoot(String xmlFile) { // open up the XML file DocumentBuilderFactory factory = null; DocumentBuilder parser = null; Document document = null; InputSource inputSource = null; InputStream xmlInputStream = null; try { xmlInputStream = new File(xmlFile).toURL().openStream(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); return null; } inputSource = new InputSource(xmlInputStream); try { factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); document = parser.parse(inputSource); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); return null; } return document; } }