Replace a Tree Node in a DOM tree in Java
Description
The following code shows how to replace a Tree Node in a DOM tree.
Example
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;
//w ww .j a v a 2 s. c o m
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
public class Main {
static public void main(String[] arg) throws Exception {
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setValidating(true);
dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
dbf.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = builder.parse(new InputSource("yourxmlFile.xml"));
replacePerson(document,"newName","111111","newEmail@email.com");
TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer trans = tf.newTransformer();
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
trans.transform(new DOMSource(document), new StreamResult(sw));
System.out.println(sw.toString());
}
public static void replacePerson(Document doc, String name, String phone, String email) {
Element newPersonNode = doc.createElement("person");
Element nameNode = doc.createElement("name");
newPersonNode.appendChild(nameNode);
Text nametextNode = doc.createTextNode(name);
nameNode.appendChild(nametextNode);
Element phoneNode = doc.createElement("phone");
newPersonNode.appendChild(phoneNode);
Text phonetextNode = doc.createTextNode(phone);
phoneNode.appendChild(phonetextNode);
Element emailNode = doc.createElement("email");
newPersonNode.appendChild(emailNode);
Text emailtextNode = doc.createTextNode(email);
emailNode.appendChild(emailtextNode);
Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
Element oldPersonNode = (Element) root.getFirstChild();
root.replaceChild(newPersonNode, oldPersonNode);
}
}
<folks>
<person>
<name>B D</name>
<phone>999 555-8888</phone>
<email>b@xyz.net</email>
</person>
</folks>
<result><![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<folks>
<person>
<name>
newName
</name>
<phone>
111111
</phone>
<email>
newEmail@email.com
</email>
</person>
</folks>