DocumentBuilderFactory setNamespaceAware() Method

Description

The Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(boolean awareness) method specifies that the parsers created by this factory will provide support for XML namespaces. By default the value of this is set to false

Declaration

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

public void setNamespaceAware(boolean awareness)

Parameters

awareness − true if the parser produced will provide support for XML namespaces; 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.setNamespaceAware() 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 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 −

true