Java tutorial
import java.io.File; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; public class Main { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setIgnoringComments(true); Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("infilename.xml")); // doc will not contain any Comment nodes } }