This method writes a DOM document to a file - Java XML

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This method writes a DOM document to a file

Demo Code

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

import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;

public class Main {
    /**
     * This method writes a DOM document to a file
     * @param filename
     * @param document
     */
    public static void writeXmlToFile(String filename, Document document) {
        try {
            // Prepare the DOM document for writing
            Source source = new DOMSource(document);

            // Prepare the output file
            File file = new File(filename);
            Result result = new StreamResult(file);

            // Write the DOM document to the file
            // Get Transformer
            Transformer xformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance()
                    .newTransformer();
            // Write to a file
            xformer.transform(source, result);
        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
            System.out.println("TransformerConfigurationException: " + e);
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            System.out.println("TransformerException: " + e);
        }
    }
}

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