DocumentBuilder (Java SE 15 & JDK 15) (original) (raw)

public abstract class DocumentBuilder extends Object

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

An instance of this class can be obtained from theDocumentBuilderFactory.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 aDocument. It merely requires that the implementation communicate with the application using these existing APIs.

Since:

1.4

Constructors

Modifier Constructor Description
protected DocumentBuilder() Protected constructor
Modifier and Type Method Description
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.
Document parse​(File f) Parse the content of the given file 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​(String uri) Parse the content of the given URI 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.
void reset() Reset this DocumentBuilder to its original configuration.
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.

Methods declared in class java.lang.Object

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