Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileReader; 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.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { public static Document fileAsDocument(final File file) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException { final DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); final DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); final InputSource is = new InputSource(new FileReader(file)); return builder.parse(is); } }