How do I turn off DTD validation?

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How do I turn off DTD validation?

As soon as you create the DocumentBuilderFactory, call the method setValidating and set it to false.

Try out following example and set it to true to see the parsing errors.

customers.dtd (!!remove the space between ? and xml):

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customers.xml (!!remove the space between ? and xml):

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Main.java:

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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