Package xal.tools.xml

Class XmlWriter

java.lang.Object

xal.tools.xml.XmlWriter

public class XmlWriter
extends Object

XmlWriter is a class that can write an XML document to a desired output in XML format. It only supports writing of Document, Element and Attribute nodes. Other node support may be added as the need arises. XML writer is quite generic for writing XML 1.0 documents with standard encoding. This class mainly implements convenience methods for writing documents to different outputs. The work of writing XML constructs to text is left to the member classes.

Author:

tap

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
XmlWriter(Document newDocument, Writer newWriter)	Creates new XmlWriter

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected void	write()	write the document to the instance's writer
static void	writeToFile(Document document, File file)	Write the document to a file
static void	writeToPath(Document newDocument, String filePath)	write the XML document to the UNIX file path
static String	writeToString(Document newDocument)	return a string representation of the XML document
static void	writeToUrl(Document document, URL url)	write the XML document to the URL
static void	writeToUrlSpec(Document newDocument, String urlSpec)	write the XML document to the URL spec
static void	writeToWriter(Document newDocument, Writer aWriter)	write the XML document to the specified writer

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

XmlWriter

public XmlWriter(Document newDocument,
 Writer newWriter)

Creates new XmlWriter

Method Details

writeToUrl

public static void writeToUrl(Document document,
 URL url)
                       throws IOException

write the XML document to the URL

Throws:

IOException

writeToUrlSpec

public static void writeToUrlSpec(Document newDocument,
 String urlSpec)
                           throws IOException

write the XML document to the URL spec

Throws:

IOException

writeToPath

public static void writeToPath(Document newDocument,
 String filePath)
                        throws IOException

write the XML document to the UNIX file path

Throws:

IOException

writeToFile

public static void writeToFile(Document document,
 File file)
                        throws IOException

Write the document to a file

Parameters:

document - the document to write

file - the file to be written

Throws:

IOException

writeToString

public static String writeToString(Document newDocument)

return a string representation of the XML document

writeToWriter

public static void writeToWriter(Document newDocument,
 Writer aWriter)

write the XML document to the specified writer

write

protected void write()

write the document to the instance's writer