Java XML Document from String readString(String xml)

Description

read String

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
xml	is XML for a document

Return

the Document contained in that XML

Declaration

public static Document readString(String xml) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;

import java.util.StringTokenizer;

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

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;

public class Main {
    private static DocumentBuilderFactory mFactory = null;

    /**//from w  w w  .  ja v a2  s .  c  om
     * @param xml is XML for a document
     * @return the Document contained in that XML
     */
    public static Document readString(String xml) {
        ensureFactory();
        try {
            DocumentBuilder builder = mFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
            return builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes("UTF-8")));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            if (e instanceof SAXParseException) {
                SAXParseException spe = (SAXParseException) e;
                int l = spe.getLineNumber();
                int c = spe.getColumnNumber();
                StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(xml, "\r\n");
                String line = "";
                for (int i = 0; (i < l) && st.hasMoreTokens(); i++)
                    line = st.nextToken();
                System.out.println("Line=" + l + ", column=" + c);
                System.out.println(line);
                for (int i = 0; i < c - 1; i++)
                    System.out.print('-');
                System.out.println('^');
            }
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
    }

    private static synchronized void ensureFactory() {
        if (mFactory == null) {
            mFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            //mFactory.setIgnoringComments(true);
            mFactory.setValidating(false);
            mFactory.setCoalescing(true);
            mFactory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
        }
    }
}

Related

1. loadXml(String xml)
2. loadXMLFrom(String xml)
3. loadXMLFromString(String xml)
4. loadXMLFromString(String xml)
5. loadXMLFromString(String xml)