DocumentBuilderFactory setIgnoringComments() Method

Description

The Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setIgnoringComments(boolean ignoreComments) method specifies that the parser produced by this code will ignore comments. By default the value of this is set to false .

Declaration

Following is the declaration for Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setIgnoringComments() method

public void setIgnoringComments(boolean ignoreComments)

Parameters

ignoreComments − boolean value to ignore comments during processing

Return Value

This method does not return a value.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of Javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setIgnoringComments() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

public class DocumentBuilderFactoryDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // create a new DocumentBuilderFactory
      DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

      // change this configuration
      factory.setIgnoringComments(true);

      // check if factory is ignoring comments
      System.out.println("" + factory.isIgnoringComments());


   }
}

If we compile the code and execute it, this will produce the following result −

true