Sample Java program to read XML from a file and print it

import java.io.File;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

public class XMLReaderSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Document doc = loadXMLFromFile("notes_sample.xml");
        
        printXML(doc);
    }
    
    public static Document loadXMLFromFile(String fileName) throws Exception
    {
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        
        return builder.parse(new File(fileName));
    }
    
    public static void printXML(Document doc) throws TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException {
        TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
        StreamResult result =  new StreamResult(System.out);
        transformer.transform(source, result);        
    }
}

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