You need to open an InputStream for the URL and pass that to your DocumentBuilder
DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = builder.parse(url.openStream());
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\\ tags: Document, DOM, url, xml
Use an XSL transformation with the xsl:strip-space instruction.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(
new StreamSource("strip-space.xsl"));
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document);
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(System.out);
transformer.transform(source, result);
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