Comment Example

import org.apache.xerces.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import java.io.*;


public class CommentReader {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
     
    DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
    
    for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
      try {
        // Read the entire document into memory
        parser.parse(args[i]); 
       
        Document d = parser.getDocument();
        processNode(d);
      }
      catch (SAXException e) {
        System.err.println(e); 
      }
      catch (IOException e) {
        System.err.println(e); 
      }
      
    }
  
  } // end main

  // note use of recursion
  public static void processNode(Node node) {
    
    int type = node.getNodeType();
    if (type == Node.COMMENT_NODE) {
      System.out.println(node.getNodeValue());
      System.out.println();
    }
    else {
      if (node.hasChildNodes()) {
        NodeList children = node.getChildNodes();
        for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) {
          processNode(children.item(i));
        } 
      }
    }
    
  }



}

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