9.9 Configuring the Tree Builder

• The DocumentBuilderFactory class offers the following methods for customizing the DOM parser.
  • void setValidating(boolean validating)
  • void setNamespaceAware(boolean awareness)
  • void setIgnoringComments(boolean ignoreComments)
  • void setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(boolean whitespace)--eliminate ignorable whitespace
  • void setExpandEntityReferences(boolean expandEntityRef)--If true, an entity reference &foo; is translated into a node; otherwise, its value is absorbed in its surrounding content.
  • void setCoalescing(boolean coalescing)--convert CDATA nodes to text
• The abstract class DocumentBuilder introduces the following method.
  • void setEntityResolver(EntityResolver er)