public DOMReader createDOMReader() 
{
		if (domReader==null) domReader = new DOMReader();
		return domReader;
}

Create a dom4j DOMReader

 public SAXReader createSAXReader(String file,
    List errorsList,
    EntityResolver entityResolver) 
{
	            	 
		if (saxReader==null) saxReader = new SAXReader();
		saxReader.setEntityResolver(entityResolver);
		saxReader.setErrorHandler( new ErrorLogger(file, errorsList) );
		saxReader.setMergeAdjacentText(true);
		saxReader.setValidation(true);
		return saxReader;
}

Create a dom4j SAXReader which will append all validation errors to errorList

 public static  void dump(Element element) 
{
		try {
			// try to "pretty print" it
			OutputFormat outformat = OutputFormat.createPrettyPrint();
			XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter( System.out, outformat );
			writer.write( element );
			writer.flush();
			System.out.println( "" );
		}
		catch( Throwable t ) {
			// otherwise, just dump it
			System.out.println( element.asXML() );
		}
}

 public static Element generateDom4jElement(String elementName) 
{
		return DocumentFactory.getInstance().createElement( elementName );
}