DOM: How to write Content of Document to a physical xml file

[Lave Kulshreshtha]

Experts,
Please see the following program which I have written for practice purpose.

After building an XML document I want to write to physical xml file, can you some please suggest how can this be achieved.

  
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package jproject.com.dom;
 
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;
 
/**
 *
 * @author Lave
 */
public class JaxpExample_9 {
 
    ////////////////////////////////////////
    // Decleration - XML namespace contants
    ////////////////////////////////////////
    public final static String SOAP_NS  = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelop";
    public final static String MH_NS    = "http://www.Monson-Haefel.com/jwsbook/BookQuote";
    public final static String XSD_NS   = "http://www.w3c.org/2001/XMLSchema";
    public final static String XSI_NS   = "http://www.w3c.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
 
    ////////////////////////////////////////
    // Implementation - XML builder
    ////////////////////////////////////////
    /**
     * 
     * @param args
     * @throws java.lang.Exception
     */
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
        //Create a new Document object representing a SOAP Envelop.
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        
        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        
        DOMImplementation domImpl = builder.getDOMImplementation();
        
        Document xmlDoc = domImpl.createDocument(SOAP_NS, "soap:Envelop", null);
        
       // System.out.println(xmlDoc.toString());
        
        //Add namespace declerations to the root element.
        Element root = xmlDoc.getDocumentElement();
        
        root.setAttribute("xmlns:soap", SOAP_NS);
        root.setAttribute("xmlns:mh", MH_NS);
        root.setAttribute("xmlns:xsd", XSD_NS);
        root.setAttribute("xmlns:xsi", XSI_NS);
 
        //Add the Body Element
        Element body = xmlDoc.createElementNS(SOAP_NS, "soap:body");
        root.appendChild(body);
        
        //Add the getBookPrice and isb elements.
        Element getBookPrice = xmlDoc.createElementNS(MH_NS, "mh:getBookPrice");
        body.appendChild(getBookPrice);
        
        Element isbn = xmlDoc.createElementNS(MH_NS, "isbn");
        body.appendChild(isbn);
 
        //Add the xsi:type attribute to the isbn element.
        Attr typeAttr = xmlDoc.createAttributeNS(XSI_NS, "xsi:type");
        typeAttr.setValue("xsd:string");
        isbn.setAttributeNodeNS(typeAttr);
        
        //Add the text contained by the isbn element.
        Text text = xmlDoc.createTextNode("0123456789");
        body.appendChild(text);
    }
}
 

Thanks,
Lave

[Rajkamal Pillai]

Hi,

Check out these two links:-

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial-update2/doc/JAXPXSLT4.html
http://www.roseindia.net/xml/dom/CreatXMLFile.shtml

Cheers,
Raj.