Java XML Document from File readXMLFile(String filename)

Description

Reads an XML document and returns the root node (which is all you need 99% of the time)

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Node readXMLFile(String filename) throws Exception 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import java.io.File;

public class Main {
    /**//from  ww w.j a  v a  2s. c  om
       Reads an XML document and returns the root node
       (which is all you need 99% of the time)
    */
    public static Node readXMLFile(String filename) throws Exception {
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setValidating(false);

        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document document = null;

        // simplify exceptions because we are only interested in parsing
        // errors.       
        try {
            document = builder.parse(new File(filename));
        } catch (SAXParseException spe) {

            String errtxt = "parse error in " + spe.getSystemId() + ",\nline: " + spe.getLineNumber() + " "
                    + spe.getMessage();

            throw new IllegalArgumentException(errtxt);
        }

        return document.getDocumentElement();
    }
}

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1. readXML(File xml)
2. readXml(String path)
3. readXML(String path)
4. readXMLFile(File file)
5. readXmlFile(String fileName)
6. readXmlFile(String fileName)
7. readXMLFile(String filename)
8. ReadXMLFile1(String in_FileName, String in_TagName)
9. ReadXMLFile3(String in_FileName, String in_TagName)