To parse an input stream to XML DOM - Java XML

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To parse an input stream to XML DOM

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//package com.java2s;

import java.io.InputStream;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

public class Main {
    /**
     * To parse an input stream to DOM
     * <p/>
     * This implementation attempts to preserve the xml structure as-is with whitespace etc
     */
    public static Document inputStreamToDocument(InputStream is)
            throws Exception {
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory
                .newInstance();
        factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
        factory.setIgnoringComments(false);
        factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(false);
        factory.setValidating(false);

        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document root = builder.parse(is);

        return root;
    }
}

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