How to read an XML file with Java?

Question

I don\'t need to read complex XML files. I just want to read the following configuration file with a simplest XML reader

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Answer 1

There are several XML parsers for Java. One I've used and found particularly developer friendly is JDOM. And by developer friendly, I mean "java oriented" (i.e., you work with objects in your program), instead of "document oriented", as some other tools are.