Insert a Processing Instruction to a DOM tree in Java
Description
The following code shows how to insert a Processing Instruction to a DOM tree.
Example
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import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.ProcessingInstruction;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
public class Main {
static public void main(String[] arg) {
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setValidating(true);
dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
dbf.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
Document doc = null;
try {
DocumentBuilder builder = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource is = new InputSource("personWithDTD.xml");
doc = builder.parse(is);
addProcessingInstruction(doc);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println(e);
}
}
public static void addProcessingInstruction(Document doc) {
Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
Element folks = (Element)root.getLastChild();
ProcessingInstruction pi;
pi = (ProcessingInstruction)doc.createProcessingInstruction(
"validate",
"phone=\"lookup\"");
root.insertBefore(pi,folks);
}
}
<locations>
<place>
<name>oldName</name>
<directions>oldDirection</directions>
</place>
</locations>
]]>
</code>
<result><![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<locations>
<?validate phone="lookup"?>
<place>
<name>
oldName
</name>
<directions>
oldDirection
</directions>
</place>
</locations>