DocumentBuilder

public abstract class DocumentBuilder
extends Object

java.lang.Object
   ↳ javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder


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

Summary

Protected constructors

DocumentBuilder()

Protected constructor

Public methods

abstract DOMImplementation getDOMImplementation()

Obtain an instance of a DOMImplementation object.

Schema getSchema()

Get a reference to the the Schema being used by the XML processor.

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.

boolean isXIncludeAware()

Get the XInclude processing mode for this parser.

abstract Document newDocument()

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

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(String uri)

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

Document parse(InputStream is)

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

Document parse(InputStream is, String systemId)

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

Document parse(File f)

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

void reset()

Reset this DocumentBuilder.

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 by the parser.

Inherited methods

Protected constructors

DocumentBuilder

Added in API level 1
protected DocumentBuilder ()

Protected constructor

Public methods

getDOMImplementation

Added in API level 1
public abstract DOMImplementation getDOMImplementation ()

Obtain an instance of a DOMImplementation object.

Returns
DOMImplementation A new instance of a DOMImplementation.

getSchema

Added in API level 8
public Schema getSchema ()

Get a reference to the the Schema being used by the XML processor.

If no schema is being used, null is returned.

Returns
Schema Schema being used or null if none in use

Throws
UnsupportedOperationException For backward compatibility, when implementations for earlier versions of JAXP is used, this exception will be thrown.

isNamespaceAware

Added in API level 1
public abstract boolean isNamespaceAware ()

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

Returns
boolean true if this parser is configured to understand namespaces; false otherwise.

isValidating

Added in API level 1
public abstract boolean isValidating ()

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

Returns
boolean true if this parser is configured to validate XML documents; false otherwise.

isXIncludeAware

Added in API level 1
public boolean isXIncludeAware ()

Get the XInclude processing mode for this parser.

Returns
boolean the return value of the DocumentBuilderFactory#isXIncludeAware() when this parser was created from factory.

Throws
UnsupportedOperationException For backward compatibility, when implementations for earlier versions of JAXP is used, this exception will be thrown.

newDocument

Added in API level 1
public abstract Document newDocument ()

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

Returns
Document A new instance of a DOM Document object.

parse

Added in API level 1
public abstract Document parse (InputSource is)

Parse the content of the given input source as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object. An IllegalArgumentException is thrown if the InputSource is null null.

Parameters
is InputSource: InputSource containing the content to be parsed.

Returns
Document A new DOM Document object.

Throws
IOException If any IO errors occur.
SAXException If any parse errors occur.

See also:

parse

Added in API level 1
public Document parse (String uri)

Parse the content of the given URI as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object. An IllegalArgumentException is thrown if the URI is null null.

Parameters
uri String: The location of the content to be parsed.

Returns
Document A new DOM Document object.

Throws
IOException If any IO errors occur.
SAXException If any parse errors occur.

See also:

parse

Added in API level 1
public Document parse (InputStream is)

Parse the content of the given InputStream as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object. An IllegalArgumentException is thrown if the InputStream is null.

Parameters
is InputStream: InputStream containing the content to be parsed.

Returns
Document Document result of parsing the InputStream

Throws
IOException If any IO errors occur.
SAXException If any parse errors occur.

See also:

parse

Added in API level 1
public Document parse (InputStream is, 
                String systemId)

Parse the content of the given InputStream as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object. An IllegalArgumentException is thrown if the InputStream is null.

Parameters
is InputStream: InputStream containing the content to be parsed.

systemId String: Provide a base for resolving relative URIs.

Returns
Document A new DOM Document object.

Throws
IOException If any IO errors occur.
SAXException If any parse errors occur.

See also:

parse

Added in API level 1
public Document parse (File f)

Parse the content of the given file as an XML document and return a new DOM Document object. An IllegalArgumentException is thrown if the File is null null.

Parameters
f File: The file containing the XML to parse.

Returns
Document A new DOM Document object.

Throws
IOException If any IO errors occur.
SAXException If any parse errors occur.

See also:

reset

Added in API level 1
public void reset ()

Reset this DocumentBuilder.

This method removes both the EntityResolver and ErrorHandler instances associated with this DocumentBuilder and sets all internal properties to false including those set by the DocumentBuilderFactory when this DocumentBuilder was created.

setEntityResolver

Added in API level 1
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.

Parameters
er EntityResolver: The EntityResolver to be used to resolve entities present in the XML document to be parsed.

setErrorHandler

Added in API level 1
public abstract void setErrorHandler (ErrorHandler eh)

Specify the ErrorHandler to be used by the parser. Setting this to null will result in the underlying implementation using it's own default implementation and behavior.

Parameters
eh ErrorHandler: The ErrorHandler to be used by the parser.