title: How to ignore whitespace while reading a file to produce an XML DOM
body: <p>I'm trying to read a file to produce a DOM Document, but the file has whitespace and newlines and I'm trying to ignore them, but I couldn't:</p>
  
  <pre><code>DocumentBuilderFactory docfactory=DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
  docfactory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I see in Javadoc that setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace method operates only when the validating flag is enabled, but I haven't the DTD or XML Schema for the document.</p>
  
  <p>What can I do?</p>
  
  <p>Update</p>
  
  <p>I don't like the idea of introduce mySelf &lt; !ELEMENT... declarations and i have tried the
  solution proposed in the <a href="http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2054303#2699961" rel="noreferrer">forum</a> pointed by Tomalak, but it doesn't work, i have used java 1.6 in an linux environment. I think if no more is proposed i will make a few methods to ignore whitespace text nodes</p>