Java XML Document Create createDocument(String root, NodeList content)

Description

Creates a XML document with the given root element and the given NodeList as content.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
root	The root element of the XML document.
content	Content of the XML document.

Return

The created XML document.

Declaration

public static Document createDocument(String root, NodeList content) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//w w w.  ja v a 2s  .co  m
 * Copyright (c) 2012 - 2015 by Stefan Ferstl <st.ferstl@gmail.com>
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import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Creates a XML document with the given root element and the given {@link NodeList} as content.
     * @param root The root element of the XML document.
     * @param content Content of the XML document.
     * @return The created XML document.
     */
    public static Document createDocument(String root, NodeList content) {
        DocumentBuilder docBuilder = createDocumentBuilder();
        Document document = docBuilder.newDocument();
        Element rootElement = document.createElement(root);
        document.appendChild(rootElement);

        for (int i = 0; i < content.getLength(); i++) {
            Node item = content.item(i);
            item = document.adoptNode(item.cloneNode(true));
            rootElement.appendChild(item);
        }
        return document;
    }

    private static DocumentBuilder createDocumentBuilder() {
        try {
            return DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot create document builder", e);
        }
    }
}

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