Java: Getting [#document: null] when trying to parse a XML string into a Document object

Question

I'm getting a null document object but not sure why - it's not really clear from the debugger.

public Document parseResponse(String respBody) throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException, SAXException {
    DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
    InputSource source = new InputSource();
    source.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(respBody));
    Document doc = builder.parse(source);
    return doc;
}

Method with debugger

Answer 1

Can you please post your respBody String here. Is it a well-formed XML without unnecessary special characters like \\n. Please note - Windows usually end lines with CR+LF; MacOS X and Linux, LF; classic Mac OS, CR.