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How to delete attribute of given node in XML file using DOM parser in Java?
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package com.javamultiplex; | |
import java.io.BufferedReader; | |
import java.io.File; | |
import java.io.IOException; | |
import java.io.InputStreamReader; | |
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; | |
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; | |
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; | |
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; | |
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; | |
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.Element; | |
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap; | |
import org.w3c.dom.Node; | |
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; | |
import org.xml.sax.SAXException; | |
public class DeleteEmployeeAttribute { | |
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, TransformerException { | |
File file = new File("src/main/resources/employee.xml"); | |
BufferedReader input=null; | |
try | |
{ | |
input=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); | |
DocumentBuilderFactory factory=DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); | |
DocumentBuilder builder=factory.newDocumentBuilder(); | |
Document document=builder.parse(file); | |
System.out.println("Enter employee id : "); | |
int id=Integer.parseInt(input.readLine()); | |
System.out.println("Enter attribute name : "); | |
String attribute=input.readLine(); | |
boolean result=deleteEmployeeAttributeFromXml(document,id,attribute); | |
if(result) | |
{ | |
TransformerFactory tFactory=TransformerFactory.newInstance(); | |
Transformer transformer=tFactory.newTransformer(); | |
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes"); | |
DOMSource source=new DOMSource(document); | |
StreamResult sResult=new StreamResult(file); | |
transformer.transform(source, sResult); | |
System.out.println("Employee attribute has been deleted successfully."); | |
} | |
else | |
{ | |
System.out.println("Either employee id or attribute name is wrong."); | |
} | |
} | |
finally | |
{ | |
if(input!=null){ | |
input.close(); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
private static boolean deleteEmployeeAttributeFromXml(Document document, int id, String attribute) { | |
NodeList list=document.getElementsByTagName("Employee"); | |
boolean result=false; | |
int length=list.getLength(); | |
for(int i=0;i<length;i++) | |
{ | |
Node node=list.item(i); | |
if(node.getNodeType()==Node.ELEMENT_NODE) | |
{ | |
Element element=(Element)node; | |
if(element.getAttribute("id").equals(String.valueOf(id))) | |
{ | |
NamedNodeMap map=element.getAttributes(); | |
node=map.getNamedItem(attribute); | |
if(node!=null) | |
{ | |
element.removeAttribute(attribute); | |
result=true; | |
break; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
return result; | |
} | |
} |
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