How the jaxp parser reads the xml depends upon the input stream example

74 Chapter 3 • Processing XML Documents with DOM

File-based Source

If the XML is in the form of a file (say myfile.xml), the file can be directly passed to the the JAXP parser’s parse() method in the following form:

String urlName = "http://localhost:8080/examples/Temp.xml";

URL url = new URL(urlName);

The parse() method now uses XMLStream to parse the XML.

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Figure 3.10 An XML file with an External Entity

When the first XML file is run, the entity ext1 is resolved and the output is as shown in Figure 3.12.