writing xml : layout

[Tomba]

hi all,

I'm writing an XML file from a DOM Document like this:

Source source = new DOMSource(doc);
Result result = new StreamResult(new File("settings.xml"));
Transformer xformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
xformer.transform(source, result);

While however it works, all XML tags are written on one line.

Is there any way I can change that behaviour so that there is
indentation and newlines in the file?

Thanks already

 

[abigale_carson]

Check out this thread from comp.lang.java:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp...ry+pretty-print&rnum=1&hl=en#2a8f942dd4a943a5

Or, if it breaks,

http://linkfrog.net/dacn

Hope this helps,

Abigale

 

[Chris Smith]

I'm writing an XML file from a DOM Document like this:

Source source = new DOMSource(doc);
Result result = new StreamResult(new File("settings.xml"));
Transformer xformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
xformer.transform(source, result);

While however it works, all XML tags are written on one line.

Is there any way I can change that behaviour so that there is
indentation and newlines in the file?

Not in the XML transformation APIs. If you switch to Xerces instead of
using generic JAXP code, then Xerces has an option to pretty-print XML.

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