Java XML Document from URL getXMLFromURL(String url)

Description

get XML From URL

License

LGPL

Declaration

public static Document getXMLFromURL(String url) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: LGPL 

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    static DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory
            .newInstance();//from  w  ww  . j av a 2  s .c o  m
    static DocumentBuilder docBuilder;

    public static Document getXMLFromURL(String url) {
        Document xmlDoc = null;

        try {
            docBuilder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
            xmlDoc = docBuilder.parse(url);
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException error) {
            System.err.println("Error reading parser configuration.");
            return xmlDoc;
        } catch (SAXException error) {
            System.err.println("Error parsing document.");
            return xmlDoc;
        } catch (IOException error) {
            System.err.println("Error accessing URL.");
            return xmlDoc;
        }

        xmlDoc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
        return xmlDoc;
    }
}

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1. getXMLFile(URL url)