setFeature(String, boolean) is undefined for the type javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory

Question

DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
builderFactory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl", true);
builderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);`

setNamespaceAware() is working on DocumentBuilderFactory. But compilation error is coming for setFeature().

The method setFeature(String, boolean) is undefined for the type DocumentBuilderFactory

Any suggestions for resolving this.

Answer 1

I would check the classpath first to see where DocumentBuilderFactory comes from. For example, xerces has the javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory class without the setFeature method.