javax.xml.parsers
Class DocumentBuilder

java.lang.Object
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  +--javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder

public abstract class DocumentBuilder

extends java.lang.Object

Defines the API to obtain DOM Document instances from an XML document. Using this class, an application programmer can obtain a org.w3c.dom.Document from XML.

An instance of this class can be obtained from the DocumentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder method. Once an instance of this class is obtained, XML can be parsed from a variety of input sources. These input sources are InputStreams, Files, URLs, and SAX InputSources.

Note that this class reuses several classes from the SAX API. This does not require that the implementor of the underlying DOM implmenetation use a SAX parser to parse XML document into a Document. It merely requires that the implementation communicate with the application using these existing APIs.

Since:

JAXP 1.0

Method Summary

abstract DOMImplementation	getDOMImplementation() Obtain an instance of a DOMImplementation object.
abstract boolean	isNamespaceAware() Indicates whether or not this parser is configured to understand namespaces.
abstract boolean	isValidating() Indicates whether or not this parser is configured to validate XML documents.
abstract Document	newDocument() Obtain a new instance of a DOM Document object to build a DOM tree with.
Document	parse(java.io.File f) Parse the content of the given file as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.
abstract Document	parse(InputSource is) Parse the content of the given input source as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.
Document	parse(java.io.InputStream is) Parse the content of the given InputStream as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.
Document	parse(java.io.InputStream is, java.lang.String systemId) Parse the content of the given InputStream as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.
Document	parse(java.lang.String uri) Parse the content of the given URI as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.
abstract void	setEntityResolver(EntityResolver er) Specify the EntityResolver to be used to resolve entities present in the XML document to be parsed.
abstract void	setErrorHandler(ErrorHandler eh) Specify the ErrorHandler to be used to resolve entities present in the XML document to be parsed.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

parse

public Document parse(java.io.InputStream is)
               throws SAXException,
                      java.io.IOException

Parse the content of the given InputStream as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.

Parameters:

is - InputStream containing the content to be parsed.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If any IO errors occur.

SAXException - If any parse errors occur.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If the InputStream is null

See Also:

DocumentHandler

parse

public Document parse(java.io.InputStream is,
                      java.lang.String systemId)
               throws SAXException,
                      java.io.IOException

Parse the content of the given InputStream as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.

Parameters:

is - InputStream containing the content to be parsed.

systemId - Provide a base for resolving relative URIs.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If any IO errors occur.

SAXException - If any parse errors occur.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If the InputStream is null

See Also:

DocumentHandler

parse

public Document parse(java.lang.String uri)
               throws SAXException,
                      java.io.IOException

Parse the content of the given URI as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.

Parameters:

uri - The location of the content to be parsed.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If any IO errors occur.

SAXException - If any parse errors occur.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If the URI is null

See Also:

DocumentHandler

parse

public Document parse(java.io.File f)
               throws SAXException,
                      java.io.IOException

Parse the content of the given file as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.

Parameters:

f - The file containing the XML to parse

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If any IO errors occur.

SAXException - If any parse errors occur.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If the file is null

See Also:

DocumentHandler

parse

public abstract Document parse(InputSource is)
                        throws SAXException,
                               java.io.IOException

Parse the content of the given input source as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object.

Parameters:

is - InputSource containing the content to be parsed.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - If any IO errors occur.

SAXException - If any parse errors occur.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If the InputSource is null

See Also:

DocumentHandler

isNamespaceAware

public abstract boolean isNamespaceAware()

Indicates whether or not this parser is configured to understand namespaces.

isValidating

public abstract boolean isValidating()

Indicates whether or not this parser is configured to validate XML documents.

setEntityResolver

public abstract void setEntityResolver(EntityResolver er)

Specify the EntityResolver to be used to resolve entities present in the XML document to be parsed. Setting this to null will result in the underlying implementation using it's own default implementation and behavior.

setErrorHandler

public abstract void setErrorHandler(ErrorHandler eh)

Specify the ErrorHandler to be used to resolve entities present in the XML document to be parsed. Setting this to null will result in the underlying implementation using it's own default implementation and behavior.

newDocument

public abstract Document newDocument()

Obtain a new instance of a DOM Document object to build a DOM tree with.

getDOMImplementation

public abstract DOMImplementation getDOMImplementation()

Obtain an instance of a DOMImplementation object.