Java tutorial
import java.io.StringWriter; import java.io.Writer; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; 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.Comment; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder builder = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.newDocument(); Element element = doc.createElement("root"); doc.appendChild(element); Comment comment = doc.createComment("This is a comment"); doc.insertBefore(comment, element); Element itemElement = doc.createElement("item"); element.appendChild(itemElement); itemElement.setAttribute("myattr", "attr>value"); itemElement.insertBefore(doc.createTextNode("te<xt"), itemElement.getLastChild()); prettyPrint(doc); } public static final void prettyPrint(Document xml) throws Exception { Transformer tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); tf.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8"); tf.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes"); Writer out = new StringWriter(); tf.transform(new DOMSource(xml), new StreamResult(out)); System.out.println(out.toString()); } }