Programmer's Cookbook

Here is a quick template for using the JDOM to load an XML file.  I like JDOM over other DOM models because it is easy to use, takes less code, and is easy to read once you are done.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.JDOMException;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;

public class SomeClass
{
   
    public SomeMethod ()
    {

        Document doc = null;

        SAXBuilder sb = new SAXBuilder();

        try {
            doc = sb.build(new File("/path/to/some/file.xml"));
        }
        catch (JDOMException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}