Programmer's Cookbook

Here is a simple example of using Xerces to load an XML document into the DOM.

import org.apache.xerces.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.traversal.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;

public class Example {

    static Document document;

    public static void main (String[] ARGS) {
        try {
            DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
            parser.parse("./sample.xml");
            document = parser.getDocument();
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace(System.err);
        }
    }   
}