Edit XML file and Update Values in Java

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EditXML.java

// Edit XML file by updating values using Java
Editor editor = new Editor("path/XMLData.xml");

// Create XML editing options
XmlEditOptions editOptions = new XmlEditOptions();
editOptions.setAttributeValuesQuoteType(QuoteType.DoubleQuote);
editOptions.setRecognizeEmails(true);
editOptions.setRecognizeUris(true);
editOptions.setTrimTrailingWhitespaces(true);

// Prepare and Edit the Editable Document
EditableDocument beforeEdit = editor.edit(editOptions);

// Edit XML
String originalTextContent = beforeEdit.getContent();
String updatedTextContent = originalTextContent.replace("John", "Samuel");

List<IHtmlResource> allResources = beforeEdit.getAllResources();

// Create new EditableDocument with updated content
EditableDocument afterEdit = EditableDocument.fromMarkup(updatedTextContent, allResources);

// Create WordProcessing save options
WordProcessingSaveOptions wordSaveOptions = new WordProcessingSaveOptions(WordProcessingFormats.Docx);

// Create TXT save options
TextSaveOptions txtSaveOptions = new TextSaveOptions();
txtSaveOptions.setEncoding(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

// Save edited XML data in DOCX and TXT format
editor.save(afterEdit, "path/updated-xml-data.docx", wordSaveOptions);
editor.save(afterEdit, "path/updated-xml-data.txt", txtSaveOptions);