Java Utililty Methods XML Parse String

if (domBuilderFactory == null) {
    domBuilderFactory = javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder parser = domBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = null;
if (obj instanceof String) {
    try {
        new URL(obj.toString());
...

try {
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbfac = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    dbfac.setNamespaceAware(true);
    DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbfac.newDocumentBuilder();
    return docBuilder.parse(new File(path));
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    return null;
...

DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
domFactory.setValidating(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
builder.setErrorHandler(new ErrorHandler() {
    @Override
    public void error(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
        throw exception;
    @Override
    public void fatalError(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
        throw exception;
    @Override
    public void warning(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
        throw exception;
});
return builder.parse(pathToMap);

String value = null;
try {
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(resp)));
    doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
    NodeList listOfProperties = doc.getElementsByTagName("ConfigCategory");
    for (int i = 0; i < listOfProperties.getLength(); i++) {
...

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder parser = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource source = new InputSource(new StringReader(text));
Document doc = parser.parse(source);
if (doc == null) {
    throw new NullPointerException();
return doc.getFirstChild();
...

DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
try {
    DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    return builder.parse(uri);
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    return null;

try {
    DocumentBuilder dBuilder = getDocumentBuilder();
    return dBuilder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes("UTF-8")));
} catch (Exception e) {
    throw new RuntimeException(e);

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
try {
    DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document domDoc = db.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes()));
    domDoc.normalize();
    return domDoc;
} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
...

return DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder()
        .parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));

try {
    final DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    final DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
    final StringReader reader = new StringReader(xml);
    final InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(reader);
    return documentBuilder.parse(inputSource);
} catch (IOException ioe) {
    log.severe("I/O Error while parsing XML: " + ioe.getMessage());
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