Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.*; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; public class Main { public static Document fileToDocument(String filename) throws Exception { System.out.println("[xml] read document from '" + filename + "'."); DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); DocumentBuilder db = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); try (FileInputStream sr = new FileInputStream(filename)) { Document document = db.parse(sr); return document; } } }