src/main/java/edu/brown/cs/student/term/parsing/XmlParser.java


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package edu.brown.cs.student.term.parsing;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

public abstract class XmlParser {
  protected DocumentBuilder builder = null;

  /**
   * This constructor crates and saves the builder that turns the xml text into a tree stricture.
   */
  protected XmlParser()  {
    // Builds the immutable factory
    System.err.println("LOG: Constructor of " + getClass() + ". To make XML parser factory.");
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    factory.setValidating(true);
    factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);

    // Creates the builder from the factory
    try {
      System.err.println("LOG: To make documentBuilder in " + getClass());
      builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
      System.err.println("INTERNAL: " + getClass() + " : " + e.getClass());
    }
  }

  /**
   * Method used to parse the xml file.
   * @param pathToXml The path to the xml text file.
   * @return The tree structure parsed as an xml doc.
   */
  public abstract Document parse(String pathToXml);
}