Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* This file is part of Cyclos (www.cyclos.org). A project of the Social Trade Organisation (www.socialtrade.org). Cyclos is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Cyclos is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Cyclos; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ import java.io.InputStream; 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.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { /** * Reads the DOM Document from an input stream */ public static Document readDocument(final InputStream in) { return readDocument(new InputSource(in)); } /** * Reads the DOM Document from a XML string */ public static Document readDocument(final String xml) { return readDocument(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml))); } private static Document readDocument(final InputSource inputSource) { final DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder documentBuilder; try { documentBuilder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); } catch (final ParserConfigurationException e) { throw new RuntimeException("Error creating the document builder", e); } try { return documentBuilder.parse(inputSource); } catch (final Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException("Error parsing xml file", e); } } }