Re: Write formatted XML to a file

From:
 evgchech <evgchech@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:07:03 -0000
Message-ID:
<1184663223.026726.51160@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 17, 9:52 am, "pavel.ore...@gmail.com" <pavel.ore...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,

I create the XML with DOM and save it to a file. But when I open such
file with Notepad, for instance, I see the XML file in one line - it
is not formatted/aligned. If I open it with IExplorer it looks fine.

I am looking for the way to save XML to a file so that XML would be
formatted.

The save code:
-------------------
doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
DOMSource ds = new DOMSource(doc);
StreamResult sr = new StreamResult(out);
TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer trans = tf.newTransformer();
trans.transform(ds, sr);

Thanks,
Pavel


    public static String formatIdent(Document xmlNode) throws
IOException {
          StringWriter strWriter = null;
          XMLSerializer probeMsgSerializer = null;
          OutputFormat outFormat = null;
          String identString = null;
          try {
            probeMsgSerializer = new XMLSerializer();
            strWriter = new StringWriter();
            outFormat = new OutputFormat();

            // Setup format settings
            outFormat.setEncoding("UTF-8");
            outFormat.setVersion("1.0");
            outFormat.setIndenting(true);
            // Define a Writer
            probeMsgSerializer.setOutputCharStream(strWriter);
            // Apply the format settings
            probeMsgSerializer.setOutputFormat(outFormat);
            // Serialize XML Document
            probeMsgSerializer.serialize(xmlNode);

            identString = strWriter.toString();
            if(identString.indexOf("\n") != -1){
              identString =
                  identString.substring(
                      identString.indexOf("\n") + 1,
identString.length());
            }
            strWriter.close();

          }
          catch (IOException ioEx) {
            throw new IOException(
                "Failed to format xml document." + ioEx.getMessage());
          }
          return identString;
        }

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