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Creating a DOM tree from scratch using Java DOM API.
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import java.util.*; | |
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; | |
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; | |
import org.w3c.dom.DOMException; | |
import org.w3c.dom.Document; | |
import org.w3c.dom.Node; | |
import org.w3c.dom.Element; | |
public class DocumentTreeExample { | |
public static void main(String[] args) throws DOMException { | |
System.out.println("Initialising DOM tree..."); | |
try { | |
Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().newDocument(); | |
System.out.println("Tree ready."); | |
// create the root element node | |
Element element = doc.createElement("root"); | |
doc.appendChild(element); | |
// add element after the first child of the root element | |
Element itemElement = doc.createElement("item"); | |
element.appendChild(itemElement); | |
// add an attribute to the node | |
itemElement.setAttribute("attrkey", "attrvalue"); | |
if(doc == null) | |
System.err.println("doc is NULL!"); | |
else | |
System.out.println("doc is NOT NULL"); | |
System.out.println(doc); // out: [#document: null] | |
System.out.println(doc.getDocumentElement().getTextContent()); // out: (doesn't print anything) | |
} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { | |
System.err.println(e); | |
} | |
System.out.println("---\nTerminated"); | |
} | |
} |
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