class:XMLInputFactory [NONE]

public abstract class XMLInputFactory
extends Object

Defines an abstract implementation of a factory for getting streams. The following table defines the standard properties of this specification. Each property varies in the level of support required by each implementation. The level of support required is described in the 'Required' column.

Configuration Parameters
Property Name	Behavior	Return type	Default Value	Required
javax.xml.stream.isValidating	Turns on/off implementation specific DTD validation	Boolean	False	No
javax.xml.stream.isNamespaceAware	Turns on/off namespace processing for XML 1.0 support	Boolean	True	True (required) / False (optional)
javax.xml.stream.isCoalescing	Requires the processor to coalesce adjacent character data	Boolean	False	Yes
javax.xml.stream.isReplacingEntityReferences	replace internal entity references with their replacement text and report them as characters	Boolean	True	Yes
javax.xml.stream.isSupportingExternalEntities	Resolve external parsed entities	Boolean	Unspecified	Yes
javax.xml.stream.supportDTD	Use this property to request processors that do not support DTDs	Boolean	True	Yes
javax.xml.stream.reporter	sets/gets the impl of the XMLReporter	javax.xml.stream.XMLReporter	Null	Yes
javax.xml.stream.resolver	sets/gets the impl of the XMLResolver interface	javax.xml.stream.XMLResolver	Null	Yes
javax.xml.stream.allocator	sets/gets the impl of the XMLEventAllocator interface	javax.xml.stream.util.XMLEventAllocator	Null	Yes

Since:: 1.6
See Also:: XMLOutputFactory, XMLEventReader, XMLStreamReader, EventFilter, XMLReporter, XMLResolver, XMLEventAllocator

field:IS_NAMESPACE_AWARE [NONE]

IS_NAMESPACE_AWARE
```
public static final String IS_NAMESPACE_AWARE
```
The property used to turn on/off namespace support, this is to support XML 1.0 documents, only the true setting must be supported

See Also:

Constant Field Values

field:IS_VALIDATING [NONE]

IS_VALIDATING
```
public static final String IS_VALIDATING
```
The property used to turn on/off implementation specific validation

See Also:

Constant Field Values

field:IS_COALESCING [NONE]

IS_COALESCING
```
public static final String IS_COALESCING
```
The property that requires the parser to coalesce adjacent character data sections

See Also:

Constant Field Values

field:IS_REPLACING_ENTITY_REFERENCES [NONE]

IS_REPLACING_ENTITY_REFERENCES
```
public static final String IS_REPLACING_ENTITY_REFERENCES
```
Requires the parser to replace internal entity references with their replacement text and report them as characters

See Also:

Constant Field Values

field:IS_SUPPORTING_EXTERNAL_ENTITIES [NONE]

IS_SUPPORTING_EXTERNAL_ENTITIES
```
public static final String IS_SUPPORTING_EXTERNAL_ENTITIES
```
The property that requires the parser to resolve external parsed entities

See Also:

Constant Field Values

field:SUPPORT_DTD [NONE]

SUPPORT_DTD
```
public static final String SUPPORT_DTD
```
The property that requires the parser to support DTDs

See Also:

Constant Field Values

field:REPORTER [NONE]

REPORTER
```
public static final String REPORTER
```
The property used to set/get the implementation of the XMLReporter interface

See Also:

Constant Field Values

field:RESOLVER [NONE]

RESOLVER
```
public static final String RESOLVER
```
The property used to set/get the implementation of the XMLResolver

See Also:

Constant Field Values

field:ALLOCATOR [NONE]

ALLOCATOR
```
public static final String ALLOCATOR
```
The property used to set/get the implementation of the allocator

See Also:

Constant Field Values

constructor:<init>() [NONE]

XMLInputFactory
```
protected XMLInputFactory()
```

method:newDefaultFactory() [NONE]

newDefaultFactory
```
public static XMLInputFactory newDefaultFactory()
```
Creates a new instance of the XMLInputFactory builtin system-default implementation.

Returns:

A new instance of the XMLInputFactory builtin system-default implementation.

Since:

9

method:newInstance() [NONE]

newInstance
```
public static XMLInputFactory newInstance()
                                   throws FactoryConfigurationError
```
Creates a new instance of the factory in exactly the same manner as the newFactory() method.

Throws:

FactoryConfigurationError - if an instance of this factory cannot be loaded

method:newFactory() [NONE]

newFactory
```
public static XMLInputFactory newFactory()
                                  throws FactoryConfigurationError
```
Create a new instance of the factory.
This static method creates a new factory instance. This method uses the following ordered lookup procedure to determine the XMLInputFactory implementation class to load:
- Use the javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory system property.
- Use the configuration file "stax.properties". The file is in standard Properties format and typically located in the conf directory of the Java installation. It contains the fully qualified name of the implementation class with the key being the system property defined above.
  
  The stax.properties file is read only once by the implementation and its values are then cached for future use. If the file does not exist when the first attempt is made to read from it, no further attempts are made to check for its existence. It is not possible to change the value of any property in stax.properties after it has been read for the first time.
  
  Use the jaxp configuration file "jaxp.properties". The file is in the same format as stax.properties and will only be read if stax.properties does not exist.
- Use the service-provider loading facility, defined by the ServiceLoader class, to attempt to locate and load an implementation of the service using the default loading mechanism : the service-provider loading facility will use the current thread's context class loader to attempt to load the service. If the context class loader is null, the system class loader will be used.
- Otherwise, the system-default implementation is returned.
Once an application has obtained a reference to a XMLInputFactory it can use the factory to configure and obtain stream instances.
Throws:

FactoryConfigurationError - in case of service configuration error or if the implementation is not available or cannot be instantiated.

method:newInstance(java.lang.String,java.lang.ClassLoader) [NONE]

newInstance
```
@Deprecated(since="1.7")
public static XMLInputFactory newInstance(String factoryId,
                                          ClassLoader classLoader)
                                   throws FactoryConfigurationError
```
Deprecated.
This method has been deprecated to maintain API consistency. All newInstance methods have been replaced with corresponding newFactory methods. The replacement newFactory(java.lang.String, java.lang.ClassLoader) method defines no changes in behavior.

Create a new instance of the factory

Parameters:

factoryId - Name of the factory to find, same as a property name

classLoader - classLoader to use

Returns:

the factory implementation

Throws:

FactoryConfigurationError - if an instance of this factory cannot be loaded

method:newFactory(java.lang.String,java.lang.ClassLoader) [NONE]

newFactory
```
public static XMLInputFactory newFactory(String factoryId,
                                         ClassLoader classLoader)
                                  throws FactoryConfigurationError
```
Create a new instance of the factory. If the classLoader argument is null, then the ContextClassLoader is used.
This method uses the following ordered lookup procedure to determine the XMLInputFactory implementation class to load:
- Use the value of the system property identified by factoryId.
- Use the configuration file "stax.properties". The file is in standard Properties format and typically located in the conf directory of the Java installation. It contains the fully qualified name of the implementation class with the key being the system property defined above.
  
  The stax.properties file is read only once by the implementation and its values are then cached for future use. If the file does not exist when the first attempt is made to read from it, no further attempts are made to check for its existence. It is not possible to change the value of any property in stax.properties after it has been read for the first time.
  
  Use the jaxp configuration file "jaxp.properties". The file is in the same format as stax.properties and will only be read if stax.properties does not exist.
- If factoryId is "javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory", use the service-provider loading facility, defined by the ServiceLoader class, to attempt to locate and load an implementation of the service using the specified ClassLoader. If classLoader is null, the default loading mechanism will apply: That is, the service-provider loading facility will use the current thread's context class loader to attempt to load the service. If the context class loader is null, the system class loader will be used.
- Otherwise, throws a FactoryConfigurationError.
Note that this is a new method that replaces the deprecated newInstance(String factoryId, ClassLoader classLoader) method. No changes in behavior are defined by this replacement method relative to the deprecated method.
API Note:

The parameter factoryId defined here is inconsistent with that of other JAXP factories where the first parameter is fully qualified factory class name that provides implementation of the factory.

Parameters:

factoryId - Name of the factory to find, same as a property name

classLoader - classLoader to use

Returns:

the factory implementation

Throws:

FactoryConfigurationError - in case of service configuration error or if the implementation is not available or cannot be instantiated.

FactoryConfigurationError - if an instance of this factory cannot be loaded

method:createXMLStreamReader(java.io.Reader) [NONE]

createXMLStreamReader

public abstract XMLStreamReader createXMLStreamReader(Reader reader)
                                               throws XMLStreamException

Create a new XMLStreamReader from a reader

Parameters:: reader - the XML data to read from
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createXMLStreamReader(javax.xml.transform.Source) [NONE]

createXMLStreamReader
```
public abstract XMLStreamReader createXMLStreamReader(Source source)
                                               throws XMLStreamException
```
Create a new XMLStreamReader from a JAXP source. This method is optional.

Parameters:

source - the source to read from

Throws:

UnsupportedOperationException - if this method is not supported by this XMLInputFactory

XMLStreamException

method:createXMLStreamReader(java.io.InputStream) [NONE]

createXMLStreamReader

public abstract XMLStreamReader createXMLStreamReader(InputStream stream)
                                               throws XMLStreamException

Create a new XMLStreamReader from a java.io.InputStream

Parameters:: stream - the InputStream to read from
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createXMLStreamReader(java.io.InputStream,java.lang.String) [NONE]

createXMLStreamReader

public abstract XMLStreamReader createXMLStreamReader(InputStream stream,
                                                      String encoding)
                                               throws XMLStreamException

Create a new XMLStreamReader from a java.io.InputStream

Parameters:: stream - the InputStream to read from; encoding - the character encoding of the stream
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createXMLStreamReader(java.lang.String,java.io.InputStream) [NONE]

createXMLStreamReader

public abstract XMLStreamReader createXMLStreamReader(String systemId,
                                                      InputStream stream)
                                               throws XMLStreamException

Create a new XMLStreamReader from a java.io.InputStream

Parameters:: systemId - the system ID of the stream; stream - the InputStream to read from
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createXMLStreamReader(java.lang.String,java.io.Reader) [NONE]

createXMLStreamReader

public abstract XMLStreamReader createXMLStreamReader(String systemId,
                                                      Reader reader)
                                               throws XMLStreamException

Create a new XMLStreamReader from a java.io.InputStream

Parameters:: systemId - the system ID of the stream; reader - the InputStream to read from
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createXMLEventReader(java.io.Reader) [NONE]

createXMLEventReader

public abstract XMLEventReader createXMLEventReader(Reader reader)
                                             throws XMLStreamException

Create a new XMLEventReader from a reader

Parameters:: reader - the XML data to read from
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createXMLEventReader(java.lang.String,java.io.Reader) [NONE]

createXMLEventReader

public abstract XMLEventReader createXMLEventReader(String systemId,
                                                    Reader reader)
                                             throws XMLStreamException

Create a new XMLEventReader from a reader

Parameters:: systemId - the system ID of the input; reader - the XML data to read from
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createXMLEventReader(javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader) [NONE]

createXMLEventReader
```
public abstract XMLEventReader createXMLEventReader(XMLStreamReader reader)
                                             throws XMLStreamException
```
Create a new XMLEventReader from an XMLStreamReader. After being used to construct the XMLEventReader instance returned from this method the XMLStreamReader must not be used.

Parameters:

reader - the XMLStreamReader to read from (may not be modified)

Returns:

a new XMLEventReader

Throws:

XMLStreamException

method:createXMLEventReader(javax.xml.transform.Source) [NONE]

createXMLEventReader
```
public abstract XMLEventReader createXMLEventReader(Source source)
                                             throws XMLStreamException
```
Create a new XMLEventReader from a JAXP source. Support of this method is optional.

Parameters:

source - the source to read from

Throws:

UnsupportedOperationException - if this method is not supported by this XMLInputFactory

XMLStreamException

method:createXMLEventReader(java.io.InputStream) [NONE]

createXMLEventReader

public abstract XMLEventReader createXMLEventReader(InputStream stream)
                                             throws XMLStreamException

Create a new XMLEventReader from a java.io.InputStream

Parameters:: stream - the InputStream to read from
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createXMLEventReader(java.io.InputStream,java.lang.String) [NONE]

createXMLEventReader

public abstract XMLEventReader createXMLEventReader(InputStream stream,
                                                    String encoding)
                                             throws XMLStreamException

Create a new XMLEventReader from a java.io.InputStream

Parameters:: stream - the InputStream to read from; encoding - the character encoding of the stream
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createXMLEventReader(java.lang.String,java.io.InputStream) [NONE]

createXMLEventReader

public abstract XMLEventReader createXMLEventReader(String systemId,
                                                    InputStream stream)
                                             throws XMLStreamException

Create a new XMLEventReader from a java.io.InputStream

Parameters:: systemId - the system ID of the stream; stream - the InputStream to read from
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createFilteredReader(javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader,javax.xml.stream.StreamFilter) [NONE]

createFilteredReader

public abstract XMLStreamReader createFilteredReader(XMLStreamReader reader,
                                                     StreamFilter filter)
                                              throws XMLStreamException

Create a filtered reader that wraps the filter around the reader

Parameters:: reader - the reader to filter; filter - the filter to apply to the reader
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:createFilteredReader(javax.xml.stream.XMLEventReader,javax.xml.stream.EventFilter) [NONE]

createFilteredReader

public abstract XMLEventReader createFilteredReader(XMLEventReader reader,
                                                    EventFilter filter)
                                             throws XMLStreamException

Create a filtered event reader that wraps the filter around the event reader

Parameters:: reader - the event reader to wrap; filter - the filter to apply to the event reader
Throws:: XMLStreamException

method:getXMLResolver() [NONE]

getXMLResolver
```
public abstract XMLResolver getXMLResolver()
```
The resolver that will be set on any XMLStreamReader or XMLEventReader created by this factory instance.

method:setXMLResolver(javax.xml.stream.XMLResolver) [NONE]

setXMLResolver
```
public abstract void setXMLResolver(XMLResolver resolver)
```
The resolver that will be set on any XMLStreamReader or XMLEventReader created by this factory instance.

Parameters:

resolver - the resolver to use to resolve references

method:getXMLReporter() [NONE]

getXMLReporter
```
public abstract XMLReporter getXMLReporter()
```
The reporter that will be set on any XMLStreamReader or XMLEventReader created by this factory instance.

method:setXMLReporter(javax.xml.stream.XMLReporter) [NONE]

setXMLReporter
```
public abstract void setXMLReporter(XMLReporter reporter)
```
The reporter that will be set on any XMLStreamReader or XMLEventReader created by this factory instance.

Parameters:

reporter - the resolver to use to report non fatal errors

method:setProperty(java.lang.String,java.lang.Object) [NONE]

setProperty
```
public abstract void setProperty(String name,
                                 Object value)
                          throws IllegalArgumentException
```
Allows the user to set specific feature/property on the underlying implementation. The underlying implementation is not required to support every setting of every property in the specification and may use IllegalArgumentException to signal that an unsupported property may not be set with the specified value.
All implementations that implement JAXP 1.5 or newer are required to support the XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD property.
- Access to external DTDs, external Entity References is restricted to the protocols specified by the property. If access is denied during parsing due to the restriction of this property, XMLStreamException will be thrown by the XMLStreamReader.next() or XMLEventReader.nextEvent() method.
Parameters:

name - The name of the property (may not be null)

value - The value of the property

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the property is not supported

method:getProperty(java.lang.String) [NONE]

getProperty
```
public abstract Object getProperty(String name)
                            throws IllegalArgumentException
```
Get the value of a feature/property from the underlying implementation

Parameters:

name - The name of the property (may not be null)

Returns:

The value of the property

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the property is not supported

method:isPropertySupported(java.lang.String) [NONE]

isPropertySupported
```
public abstract boolean isPropertySupported(String name)
```
Query the set of properties that this factory supports.

Parameters:

name - The name of the property (may not be null)

Returns:

true if the property is supported and false otherwise

method:setEventAllocator(javax.xml.stream.util.XMLEventAllocator) [NONE]

setEventAllocator
```
public abstract void setEventAllocator(XMLEventAllocator allocator)
```
Set a user defined event allocator for events

Parameters:

allocator - the user defined allocator

method:getEventAllocator() [NONE]

getEventAllocator
```
public abstract XMLEventAllocator getEventAllocator()
```
Gets the allocator used by streams created with this factory