DocumentBuilderFactory isCoalescing() Method

Description

The Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.isCoalescing() method indicates whether or not the factory is configured to produce parsers which converts CDATA nodes to Text nodes and appends it to the adjacent (if any) Text node.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.isCoalescing() method

public boolean isCoalescing()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

This method returns true if the factory is configured to produce parsers which converts CDATA nodes to Text nodes and appends it to the adjacent (if any) Text node; false otherwise.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.isCoalescing() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

public class DocumentBuilderFactoryDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // create a new DocumentBuilderFactory
      DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

      // check if factory is coalescing
      System.out.println("" + factory.isCoalescing());

      // change coalescing of factory
      factory.setCoalescing(true);

      // check if factory is coalescing
      System.out.println("" + factory.isCoalescing());


   }
}

If we compile the code and execute it, this will produce the following result −

false
true