DOM Document = null

Question

I am trying to build a DOM document. The code I wrote (taken from examples) always returns a null.
There is no exception, everything seems OK but the document is null. It is unusable.
My JVM : 1.4.2-03-b02 on Windows
Same behavior on 1.4.2-08 on Linux
I can't manage to find my mistake.
Any clue ?
Thanks in advance
AF
Here is the code
package org.home.test.xerces;
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
public class Builder {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          Document xmlDoc=null;
          try {
          DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          dbFactory.setValidating(false);
          dbFactory.setNamespaceAware(false);
          DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
          xmlDoc = docBuilder.parse(new File("E:\\arnold\\test.xml") );
          System.out.println("Document builder : " + docBuilder);
          System.out.println("Document implementation : " + xmlDoc.getImplementation());
          System.out.println("Document : " + xmlDoc);
          catch (Exception e) {
               System.out.println("Exception : " + e);
Result in the console is:
Document builder : org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl@1cb25f1
Document implementation : org.apache.xerces.dom.DOMImplementationImpl@e3b895
Document : [#document: null]

Answer 1

The returned Document isn't null. If it was, you'd just get "null" without the "[#document" part. Don't assume that a given implementation of Document will have a toString that spits back the XML.
Try printing out the doc's root element, or the names of the children.
You might also look into jdom. I know it has some prettyprint methods.