Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.IOException; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { /** * Makes a DOM document out of an XML file. * @param pathToFile path to the XML file. * @return a DOM document */ public static Document parseXmlFile(String pathToFile) { try { DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = dBuilder.parse(pathToFile); doc.getDocumentElement().normalize(); return doc; } catch (final ParserConfigurationException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); // TODO proper exception handling } catch (final SAXException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); // TODO proper exception handling } catch (final IOException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); // TODO proper exception handling } } }