org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element is missing

[irenesoundarya]

I have a java file in which i parse a xml file

URL url = new URL(address);
con = (HttpURLConnection)(url.openConnection());
con.setDoOutput(true);
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
in=con.getInputStream();
DocumentBuilderFactory docFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = docBuilder.parse(in);

Error occurs in the last line only for some xml files.
the xml files are well formed and is downloaded from google so no error can be in that ,
what may the reason for the error.
the error is as follows
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element is missing
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3376)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3364)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:668)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:337)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:448)
at org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:185)
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:76)
at com.df.semtools.adwords.GetAdwordsStats.getKeywords(GetAdwordsStats.java:278)
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Thanks for ur help in advance

[Hack]

Welcome to DevX

Can you post the contents of your applicationContext.xml file? It looks like you're missing the root element.