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Asked: 2026-05-16T01:46:55+00:00

I am currently modifying a piece of code and I am wondering if the

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I am currently modifying a piece of code and I am wondering if the way the XML is formatted (tabs and spacing) will affect the way in which it is parsed into the DocumentBuilderFactory class.

In essence the question is…can I pass a big long string with no spacing into the DocumentBuilderFactory or does it need to be formatted in some way?

Thanks in advance, included below is the Class definition from Oracles website.

Class DocumentBuilderFactory

“Defines a factory API that enables applications to obtain a parser that produces DOM object trees from XML documents. “

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  1. Editorial Team

    It should not affect the ability of the parser as long as the string is valid XML. Tabs and newlines are stripped out or ignored by parsers and are really for the aesthetics of the human reader.

    Note you will have to pass in an input stream (StringBufferInputStream for example) to the DocumentBuilder as the string version of parse assumes it is a URI to the XML.

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