DocumentBuilderFactory setCoalescing() Method

Description

The Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setCoalescing(boolean coalescing) method specifies that the parser produced by this code will convert CDATA nodes to Text nodes and append it to the adjacent (if any) text node. By default the value of this is set to false

Declaration

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

public void setCoalescing(boolean coalescing)

Parameters

coalescing − true if the parser produced will convert CDATA nodes to Text nodes and append it to the adjacent (if any) text node; false otherwise.

Return Value

This method does not return a value.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setCoalescing() 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();

      // 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 −

true