Simple Java implementation

The following code might be useful for somebody who wants to access the API via Java

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package com.example.yahoogeo;

import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.URLEncoder;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class yahooGeoClient {
	private static final String yahooApplicationId = ;

	/**
	 * @param args
	 * @throws IOException 
	 * @throws ParseException 
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		Document xmlResponse = makeYahooGeoSearch();
		// do something here with the DOM document
	}
	
	private static Document makeYahooGeoSearch() {
		
		String searchUrl	= "http://wherein.yahooapis.com/v1/document";
		String documentContent	= "Monaco";
		String documentTitle	= "";
		String documentType	= "text/plain";
		String outputType	= "xml";
		String inputLanguage	= "en-US";
		String focusWoeid	= "";
		String autoDisambiguate	= "false";
		
		Document xmlDocument = null;
		try {
			URL url = new URL(searchUrl);
			String data = "documentContent="		+ URLEncoder.encode(documentContent,"UTF-8")
					+ "&" + "documentTitle="	+ URLEncoder.encode(documentTitle,"UTF-8")
					+ "&" + "appid="		+ URLEncoder.encode(yahooApplicationId, "UTF-8")
					+ "&" + "documentType=" 	+ URLEncoder.encode(documentType,"UTF-8")
					+ "&" + "outputType="		+ URLEncoder.encode(outputType, "UTF-8")
					+ "&" + "inputLanguage="	+ URLEncoder.encode(inputLanguage, "UTF-8")
					+ "&" + "focusWoeid="		+ URLEncoder.encode(focusWoeid, "UTF-8")
					+ "&" + "autoDisambiguate="	+ URLEncoder.encode(autoDisambiguate, "UTF-8")
				;

			// set up the connection
			URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
			connection.setDoOutput(true);
			connection.setDoInput(true);
			connection.setUseCaches (false);
			connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

			// send request (with data)
			DataOutputStream writer = new DataOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream()); 
			writer.writeBytes(data); 
			writer.flush(); 
			writer.close();
			
			// get the response
			xmlDocument = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(connection.getInputStream());

		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (SAXException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	
		return xmlDocument;
	}
}