gistfile1.java

Reader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
Input Source input = new InputSource(in);
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
int whatToShow = NodeFilter.SHOW_ALL;
NodeFilter filter = new NodeFilter() {
			public short acceptNode(Node n) {
				if (n.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
					if(((Text)n).getData().trim().length() == 0)
						return NodeFilter.FILTER_REJECT;
				}
				return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT;
			}
		};

parser.parse(input);
in.close();
Document doc = parser.getDocument();
DocumentTraversal traversal = (DocumentTraversal)doc;
TreeWalker walker = traversal.createTreeWalker(doc, whatToShow, filter, false);

//now we have a tree we can recursively walk down to create the needed staging tables