How to ignore white space when parse xml document using xerces 2.4.0

Question

When I run the program with the xml given below the following error comes.
Problem parsing the file.java.lang.NullPointerExceptionjava.lang.NullPointerExce
ption
at SchemaTest.main(SchemaTest.java:25)
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My expectation is "RECEIPT". Pls send me the solution.
import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import java.io.*;
import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
public class SchemaTest {
public static void main (String args[])
try
FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream(new File("C:\\ADL\\imsmanifest.xml"));
InputSource in = new InputSource(is);
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
//parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", false);
//parser.setProperty("http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation", "memory.xsd");
//ErrorHandler errors = new ErrorHandler();
//parser.setErrorHandler(errors);
parser.parse(in);
Document manifest = parser.getDocument();
manifest.normalize();
NodeList nl = manifest.getElementsByTagName("organization");
System.out.println((((nl.item(0)).getChildNodes()).item(0)).getFirstChild().getNodeValue());
catch (Exception e)
System.out.print("Problem parsing the file."+e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
<?xml version = '1.0'?>
<organizations default="detail">
<organization identifier="detail" isvisible="true">
<title>RECEIPT</title>
<item identifier="S100000" identifierref="R100000" isvisible="true">
<title>Basic Module</title>
<item identifier="S100001" identifierref="R100001" isvisible="true">
<title>Objectives</title>
<metadata/>
</item>
</item>
<metadata/>
</organization>
</organizations>
Is there a white space problem? How do I get rid from this problem.

Answer 1

ok now i really wrote the whole code, a bit scrolling in the API is to hard?
            DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = new DocumentBuilderFactory();
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
            dbf.setNamespaceAware(true); //or set false
            Document d = db.parse(inputstream);