Hi Derrick,
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 07:13, Koes, Derrick wrote:
> I'm using a home grown serializer (DOMWriter) to write my xml to a
> file. I'm curious as to what other people are using.
As far as I know, there are two options.
[note: all code below is just a "rough" outline]
The "portable" option is to use JAXP.
import javax.xml.tranform.*;
TransformerFactory factory = ...
Transformer t = factory.newTransformer(); // identity transform
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(mydocument);
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new File("foo.xml"));
t.transform(source, result);
Class javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys allows tweaking of the output
format.
The alternative is to use the org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer
class (shipped with xerces). The HTMLSerializer in this package was
deprecated in xerces 2.6.2, so I guess the XMLSerializer will face the
same fate soon (in favour of the xslt-based solution). However for those
of us on pre-java-1.4 with apps that use xml but not xslt and do not
wish to ship an entire xslt engine just to do serialization, it is still
a good option.
Regards,
Simon
