18.6. Parsing a Document with DOM
Though
the DOM standard doesn't
specify an actual interface for parsing a document, most
implementations provide a simple parsing interface that accepts a
reference to an XML document file, stream, or URI. After this
interface successfully parses and validates the document (if it is a
validating parser), it generally provides a mechanism for getting a
reference to the Document
interface's instance for the parsed document. The
following code fragment shows how to parse a document using the
Apache Xerces XML DOM parser:
// create a new parser
DOMParser dp = new DOMParser( );
// parse the document and get the DOM Document interface
dp.parse("http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006.xml");
Document doc = dp.getDocument( );
TIP:
DOM Level 3 will
be adding standard mechanisms for loading XML documents and
reserializing (saving) DOM trees as XML. JAXP also provides
standardized approaches for these processes in Java, though JAXP and
DOM Level 3 may offer different approaches.
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