DocumentBuilderFactory setValidating() Method

Description

The Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setValidating(boolean validating) method specifies that the parser produced by this code will validate documents as they are parsed. By default the value of this is set to false.

Declaration

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

public void setValidating(boolean validating)

Parameters

validating − true if the parser produced will validate documents as they are parsed; 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.setValidating() 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.setValidating(true);

      // check if factory is validating
      System.out.println("" + factory.isValidating());


   }
}

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

true