Here you can find the source of parse(File f)
public static Document parse(File f) throws TransformerException, IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException
//package com.java2s; /*// w w w .j a v a 2 s .c o m * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { private static final ThreadLocal<DocumentBuilderFactory> DOCUMENT_BUILDER_FACTORY = new ThreadLocal<DocumentBuilderFactory>(); public static Document parse(String uri) throws TransformerException, IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException { DocumentBuilder db = documentBuilder(); try { return db.parse(uri); } finally { db.reset(); } } public static Document parse(InputStream stream) throws TransformerException, IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException { DocumentBuilder db = documentBuilder(); try { return db.parse(stream); } finally { db.reset(); } } public static Document parse(File f) throws TransformerException, IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException { DocumentBuilder db = documentBuilder(); try { return db.parse(f); } finally { db.reset(); } } public static Document parse(File f, ErrorHandler errorHandler) throws TransformerException, IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException { DocumentBuilder db = documentBuilder(); db.setErrorHandler(errorHandler); try { return db.parse(f); } finally { db.reset(); } } public static DocumentBuilder documentBuilder() throws ParserConfigurationException { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DOCUMENT_BUILDER_FACTORY.get(); if (dbf == null) { dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); dbf.setNamespaceAware(true); DOCUMENT_BUILDER_FACTORY.set(dbf); } return dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); } }