Java XML Document to File writeDocument(Document document, File file)

Description

Writes a document to a file.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
document	The document to save.
file	The file to save the document to.

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	if an error occurs
TransformerConfigurationException	if an error occurs
TransformerException	if an error occurs

Declaration

public static void writeDocument(Document document, File file)
        throws TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException, IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.Writer;

import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
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.DocumentType;

public class Main {
    /** 
     * Writes a document to a file. A new file is created if it does not exist.
     *
     * @param document The document to save.
     * @param file The file to save the document to.
     * 
     * @throws IOException if an error occurs
     * @throws TransformerConfigurationException if an error occurs
     * @throws TransformerException if an error occurs
     */
    public static void writeDocument(Document document, File file)
            throws TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException, IOException {
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        file.createNewFile();

        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document);
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(file);
        getTransformer(document.getDoctype()).transform(source, result);
    }

    /** 
     * Writes a document to a writer.
     *
     * @param document The document to write.
     * @param writer The writer to write the document to.
     * 
     * @throws IOException if an error occurs
     * @throws TransformerConfigurationException if an error occurs
     * @throws TransformerException if an error occurs
     */
    public static void writeDocument(Document document, Writer writer)
            throws TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException, IOException {
        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document);
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
        getTransformer(document.getDoctype()).transform(source, result);
    }

    /**
     * Get the tranformer.
     * 
     * @param documentType the document type
     * @return a transformer
     * 
     * @throws TransformerConfigurationException if an error occurs
     */
    protected static Transformer getTransformer(DocumentType documentType)
            throws TransformerConfigurationException {
        TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");

        if (documentType != null) {
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.DOCTYPE_PUBLIC, documentType.getPublicId());
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.DOCTYPE_SYSTEM, documentType.getSystemId());
        }

        return transformer;
    }
}

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