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Muhammad Hewedy
Muhammad Hewedy

Reputation: 30058

How to write rootless list in xml

I want to write an xml file using the following format:

<root>
    <date> 9:51 AM 10/10/2012 </date>
    <responseTime> 1.20</responseTime>
    <employee>
        <name> Mohammad</name>
    </employee>
    <employee>
        <name> Ali</name>
    </employee>
    <employee>
        <name> Mostafa</name>
    </employee>
    <employee>
        <name> Mahmoud</name>
    </employee>
</root>

Can I wrote it using DOM? or should I write it by hand?

(The problem in that the employee node is a sequence without a direct parent node to warp all employee elements without date and responseTime elements)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 197

Answers (2)

RonK
RonK

Reputation: 9652

I don't see the problem with doing it with DOM.

Code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException, TransformerException
{
    DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document document = documentBuilder.newDocument();
    Element root = document.createElement("root");
    document.appendChild(root);

    Element emp1 = document.createElement("employee");
    Element emp1name = document.createElement("name");
    emp1name.setTextContent("Mohammad");
    emp1.appendChild(emp1name);
    Element emp2 = document.createElement("employee");
    Element emp2name = document.createElement("name");
    emp2name.setTextContent("Ali");
    emp2.appendChild(emp2name);

    root.appendChild(emp1);
    root.appendChild(emp2);

    printDocument(document, System.out);
}

Output:

<root>
    <employee>
        <name>Mohammad</name>
    </employee>
    <employee>
        <name>Ali</name>
    </employee>
</root>

You can see the source code for printDocument in this SO Answer.

Full source code can be found here.

Upvotes: 1

DrArt
DrArt

Reputation: 141

I think you can write that with DOM (the parent node for "employee" is "root"), however it would be nicer to wrap "employee" nodes with "employees" for example...

Upvotes: 0

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