DocumentBuilderFactory isNamespaceAware() Method

Description

The Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.isNamespaceAware() method indicates whether or not the factory is configured to produce parsers which are namespace aware.

Declaration

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

public boolean isNamespaceAware()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

This method returns true if the factory is configured to produce parsers which which are namespace aware;false otherwise.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.isNamespaceAware() 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 namespace aware
      System.out.println("" + factory.isNamespaceAware());

      // change this configuration
      factory.setNamespaceAware(true);

      // check if factory is namespace aware
      System.out.println("" + factory.isNamespaceAware());


   }
}

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

false
true