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get Document Element from a file
    
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import java.io.File;

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

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

/**
 
 @author Abey Mullassery
 
 */
public class Main {


  public static Element getDocumentElement(File fileName)
    throws Exception {
    try {
      Document doc = getDocumentBuilder().parse(fileName);
      return doc.getDocumentElement();
    catch (Exception se) {
      return null;
    }
  }
  /**
   * Returns a default DocumentBuilder instance or throws an
   * ExceptionInInitializerError if it can't be created.
   *
   @return a default DocumentBuilder instance.
   */
  public static DocumentBuilder getDocumentBuilder() throws Exception {
    try {
      DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
      dbf.setIgnoringComments(true);
      dbf.setCoalescing(true);
      dbf.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
      dbf.setValidating(false);
      return dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
    catch (Exception exc) {
      throw new Exception(exc.getMessage());
    }
  }

}

   
    
    
    
  














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