Parsing a Document with JDOM

import org.jdom.JDOMException;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
import java.io.IOException;


public class JDOMChecker {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
  
    if (args.length == 0) {
      System.out.println("Usage: java JDOMChecker URL1 URL2..."); 
    } 
      
    SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
     
    // start parsing... 
    for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
      
      // command line should offer URIs or file names
      try {
        builder.build(args[i]);
        // If no exception is thrown, then there are
        // no well-formedness errors.
        System.out.println(args[i] + " is well-formed.");
      }
             // indicates a well-formedness error
      catch (JDOMException e) { 
        System.out.println(args[i] + " is not well-formed.");
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
      }
      catch (IOException e) { 
        System.out.println("Could not check " + args[i]);
        System.out.println("because " + e.getMessage());
      }
      
    }   
  
  }

}

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