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You will be introduced to the working of DOM parser in this post.

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We can get a DocumentBuilder instance as soon as we have a DOM factory. The methods available for the DocumentBuilder instance are very similar to those available to its SAX counterpart. But there is a slight difference when we talk about the parse() method. The parse method in case of DOM do not take an instance of the SAX DefaultHandler class. It returns a DOM Document instance representing the XML document that was ...

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Java EE

XML files are very useful. Usually they are used to store configuration settings. We can also use XML files to store data so it can be used as a database. A lot of work has been done in this domain and its really very useful working with XML files.

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Now suppose you have a XML file with some useful data.

college.xml

XML Code:

<college>
<student>
  <first>Shoaib</first>
  <last>Malik</last>

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Java SE