Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.Reader; import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static Element newTemplate(String xml) throws Exception { Document doc = readXML(xml); return doc.getDocumentElement(); } /** * Parses the given input stream and returns the corresponding desirialized * XML document. * * @param input the input stream containing the serialized XML document * @return the deserialized DOM document * @throws Exception */ public static Document readXML(InputStream input) throws Exception { return readXML(new InputStreamReader(input, "UTF-8")); } /** * Parses the given input stream and returns the corresponding desirialized * XML document. * * @param reader the reader containing the serialized XML document * @return the deserialized DOM document * @throws Exception */ public static Document readXML(Reader reader) throws Exception { try { DocumentBuilder builder = getDocumentBuilder(); InputSource source = new InputSource(reader); Document doc = builder.parse(source); return doc; } finally { reader.close(); } } public static Document readXML(String str) throws Exception { if (str == null) { return null; } Reader reader = new StringReader(str); return readXML(reader); } /** * Creates and returns an new document builder factory. This method tries to * configure the namespace support for the builder. If the underlying parser * does not support namespaces then this method returns a simple * DocumentBuilder object. * * @return a new document builder * @throws ParserConfigurationException */ private static DocumentBuilder getDocumentBuilder() throws ParserConfigurationException { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); // never forget this! try { factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces", true); } catch (Throwable t) { // Just skip it... } DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); return builder; } }