Why am I getting this error Premature end of file?

Question

I am trying to parse an XML response, but I am failing miserably. I thought initially that the xml was just not being returned in the response, so

Answer 1

For those who reached this post for Answer:

This happens mainly because the InputStream the DOM parser is consuming is empty

So in what I ran across, there might be two situations:

1. The InputStream you passed into the parser has been used and thus emptied.
2. The File or whatever you created the InputStream from may be an empty file or string or whatever. The emptiness might be the reason caused the problem. So you need to check your source of the InputStream.