DocumentBuilderFactory newDocumentBuilder() Method

Description

The Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder() method creates a new instance of a DocumentBuilder using the currently configured parameters.

Declaration

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

public abstract DocumentBuilder newDocumentBuilder()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

This method returns a new instance of a DocumentBuilder.

Exception

ParserConfigurationException − if a DocumentBuilder cannot be created which satisfies the configuration requested.

Example

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

package com.tutorialspoint;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

public class DocumentBuilderFactoryDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

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

      // configure the DocumentBuilder to be namespace aware
      factory.setNamespaceAware(true);

      try {
         // create a new DocumentBuilder
         DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();

         // check the configuration for namespace aware
         System.out.println("" + builder.isNamespaceAware());

      } catch (ParserConfigurationException ex) {
         ex.printStackTrace();
      }

   }
}

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

true