Simple example to create a xml file in Java
package com.xml;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
public class Main {
public static void main (String[] args) {
try {
//Create Document
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = builder.newDocument();
//Books Tag - Root Tag
Element books = document.createElement("books");
document.appendChild(books);
//Book Tag - Child Tag
Element book1 = document.createElement("book");
books.appendChild(book1);
Element name = document.createElement("name");
name.setTextContent("Head First EJB");
book1.appendChild(name);
Element author = document.createElement("author");
author.setTextContent("Kathy Seira");
book1.appendChild(author);
//Transform Document Object
TransformerFactory tfactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = tfactory.newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "no");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document);
//To write the dom object into a file
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new File("books.xml"));
transformer.transform(source, result);
//To write the dom object content into string
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
StreamResult result1 = new StreamResult(writer);
transformer.transform(source, result1);
//System.out.println (writer.toString());
}catch (ParserConfigurationException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(Main.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}catch (TransformerConfigurationException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(Main.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
} catch (TransformerException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(Main.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
}
The output of the program
Head First EJB
Kathy Seira
