Java XML Document Create createEmptyDocument()

Description

Purpose: Creates an Empty XML Document object

License

Apache License

Exception

Parameter	Description
ParserConfigurationException	an exception

Declaration

public static Document createEmptyDocument() throws ParserConfigurationException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;

public class Main {
    /**
     * 
     * <B>Purpose:</B> Creates an Empty XML Document object
     * 
     * @return
     * @throws ParserConfigurationException
     */
    public static Document createEmptyDocument() throws ParserConfigurationException {
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        DOMImplementation impl = builder.getDOMImplementation();
        Document doc = impl.createDocument(null, null, null);
        return doc;
    }

    public static Document createDocument(String rootElement) throws ParserConfigurationException {
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        Document document = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
        document.appendChild(document.createElement(rootElement));
        return document;
    }
}

Related

1. createDocumentFromString(String xmlString)
2. createDocumentFromXml(String input)
3. createDocumentFromXMLContent(String docContent)
4. createDocumentFromXmlFragment(final InputStream inputStreamXmlFragment, final URL urlSchema)
5. createDocumentFromXmlString(String xmlStr)
6. createEmptyDocument()
7. createEmptyDocument()
8. createEmptyDocument()
9. createEmptyDocument(final DocumentBuilder builder)