log4j uses DocumentBuilder to parse log4j.xml
here is example code which is same as log4j original source code.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 | package main; import java.io.*; import java.net.*; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class DocumentBuilderEntry { public static void loop(Node node) { // do something with the current node instead of System.out System.out.println(node.getNodeName()); NodeList nodeList = node.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) { Node currentNode = nodeList.item(i); if (currentNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { //calls this method for all the children which is Element loop(currentNode); } } } public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub URL url = DocumentBuilderEntry.class.getResource("log4j.xml"); DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); try { DocumentBuilder parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); URLConnection uConn = url.openConnection(); uConn.setUseCaches(false); InputStream stream = uConn.getInputStream(); try { InputSource src = new InputSource(stream); src.setSystemId(url.toString()); Document doc = parser.parse(src); loop(doc.getDocumentElement()); } catch (SAXException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } finally { stream.close(); } } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (ParserConfigurationException e1) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e1.printStackTrace(); } } } |