[dom4j-user] validating XML using DocumentHelper (or a better way)?

[rolarenfan]

This will work to validate a string-value as a valid XML document: 

public boolean isValid(final String value) {
        try {
                DocumentHelper.parseText(value);
                return true;

        } catch (DocumentException exn) {
                return false;
        } 
}

Is there a better way within dom4j to do that -- i.e., some way that does not 
throw an Exception (which is a pretty expensive act)? 

thanks,
Paul 




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