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Creates element node, attribute node, comment node, processing instruction and a CDATA section
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import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.w3c.dom.CDATASection;
import org.w3c.dom.Comment;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.ProcessingInstruction;
public class BuildXml {
private Document document;
public BuildXml() {
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
try {
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
document = builder.newDocument();
}catch (ParserConfigurationException parserException) {
parserException.printStackTrace();
}
Element root = document.createElement("root");
document.appendChild(root);
// add comment to XML document
Comment simpleComment = document.createComment("This is a simple contact list");
root.appendChild(simpleComment);
// add child element
Node contactNode = createContactNode(document);
root.appendChild(contactNode);
// add processing instruction
ProcessingInstruction pi = document.createProcessingInstruction("myInstruction",
"action silent");
root.appendChild(pi);
// add CDATA section
CDATASection cdata = document.createCDATASection("I can add <, >, and ?");
root.appendChild(cdata);
// write the XML document to disk
try {
// create DOMSource for source XML document
Source xmlSource = new DOMSource(document);
// create StreamResult for transformation result
Result result = new StreamResult(new FileOutputStream("myDocument.xml"));
// create TransformerFactory
TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
// create Transformer for transformation
Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty("indent", "yes");
// transform and deliver content to client
transformer.transform(xmlSource, result);
}
// handle exception creating TransformerFactory
catch (TransformerFactoryConfigurationError factoryError) {
System.err.println("Error creating " + "TransformerFactory");
factoryError.printStackTrace();
}catch (TransformerException transformerError) {
System.err.println("Error transforming document");
transformerError.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException ioException) {
ioException.printStackTrace();
}
}
public Node createContactNode(Document document) {
// create FirstName and LastName elements
Element firstName = document.createElement("FirstName");
Element lastName = document.createElement("LastName");
firstName.appendChild(document.createTextNode("First Name"));
lastName.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Last Name"));
// create contact element
Element contact = document.createElement("contact");
// create attribute
Attr genderAttribute = document.createAttribute("gender");
genderAttribute.setValue("F");
// append attribute to contact element
contact.setAttributeNode(genderAttribute);
contact.appendChild(firstName);
contact.appendChild(lastName);
return contact;
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
BuildXml buildXml = new BuildXml();
}
}
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