The J2EE™ Tutorial Second Edition

Creating and Manipulating a DOM

By now, you understand the structure of the nodes that make up a DOM. Creating a DOM is easy. This section of the DOM tutorial is going to take much less work than anything you've seen up to now. All the foregoing work, however, has generated the basic understanding that will make this section a piece of cake.

Obtaining a DOM from the Factory

In this version of the application, you'll still create a document builder factory, but this time you'll tell it to create a new DOM instead of parsing an existing XML document. You'll keep all the existing functionality intact, however, and add the new functionality in such a way that you can flick a switch to get back the parsing behavior.

Note

The code discussed in this ...