[jdom-interest] testing for existance of xml file

[Shaun Smith]

Well, the File.exists( ) method seems to be the most appropriate
way of checking if a file exists.

i.e. 

File f = new File( "/whatever );
if( f.exists( ) )
{
	// do stuff
}


> 
> In code like this...
> 
> try {
> 		SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
> 		Document aDocument = builder.build(new 
> File("/usr/local/tomcat/myfile2.xml"));
> 		Element rootElement = aDocument.getRootElement();
> 		Element childElement = 
> rootElement.getChild("childElement");
> 		result = childElement.getText();
> 	} catch(JDOMException e) {
> 
> 	} catch(NullPointerException e) {
> 
> 	}