How to convert a DOM Document object into an XML file using JAXP?
Created May 4, 2012
Chandra Patni Using JAXP1.1 (See JSR 0063)
javax.xml.transform.Transformer
class can be used to convert a DOM Document object into an XML file. For example, writeToFile()
method in the following snippet of code writes a Document object to a specified file. Note that javax.xml.transform
is a new package defined in JAXP1.1.
import java.io.*; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; ....... public void writeToFile(Document doc, String fileNameToWrite) throws Exception { DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(doc); PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(fileNameToWrite))); StreamResult streamResult = new StreamResult(out); TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer(); transformer.transform(domSource, streamResult); }