I need to create a XML Document object using the NodeList. Can someone pls help me to do this. This is my Java code:
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.xpath.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
public class ReadFile {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String exp = "/configs/markets";
String path = "testConfig.xml";
try {
Document xmlDocument = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(path);
XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
XPathExpression xPathExpression = xPath.compile(exp);
NodeList nodes = (NodeList)
xPathExpression.evaluate(xmlDocument,
XPathConstants.NODESET);
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
I want to have an XML file like this:
<configs>
<markets>
<market>
<name>Real</name>
</market>
<market>
<name>play</name>
</market>
</markets>
</configs>
Thanks in advance.
You should do it like this:
org.w3c.dom.Document newXmlDoc
where you store the nodes in your NodeList
, newXmlDoc
n
in your NodeList
, you import n
in newXmlDoc
, and then you append n
as a child of root
Here is the code:
public static void main(String[] args) {
String exp = "/configs/markets/market";
String path = "src/a/testConfig.xml";
try {
Document xmlDocument = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
.newDocumentBuilder().parse(path);
XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
XPathExpression xPathExpression = xPath.compile(exp);
NodeList nodes = (NodeList) xPathExpression.
evaluate(xmlDocument, XPathConstants.NODESET);
Document newXmlDocument = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
.newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
Element root = newXmlDocument.createElement("root");
newXmlDocument.appendChild(root);
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
Node node = nodes.item(i);
Node copyNode = newXmlDocument.importNode(node, true);
root.appendChild(copyNode);
}
printTree(newXmlDocument);
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static void printXmlDocument(Document document) {
DOMImplementationLS domImplementationLS =
(DOMImplementationLS) document.getImplementation();
LSSerializer lsSerializer =
domImplementationLS.createLSSerializer();
String string = lsSerializer.writeToString(document);
System.out.println(string);
}
The output is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<root><market>
<name>Real</name>
</market><market>
<name>play</name>
</market></root>
Some notes:
exp
to /configs/markets/market
, because I suspect you want to copy the market
elements, rather than the single markets
elementprintXmlDocument
, I've used the interesting code in this answer I hope this helps.
If you don't want to create a new root element, then you may use your original XPath expression, which returns a NodeList
consisting of a single node (keep in mind that your XML must have a single root element) that you can directly add to your new XML document.
See following code, where I commented lines from the code above:
public static void main(String[] args) {
//String exp = "/configs/markets/market/";
String exp = "/configs/markets";
String path = "src/a/testConfig.xml";
try {
Document xmlDocument = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
.newDocumentBuilder().parse(path);
XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
XPathExpression xPathExpression = xPath.compile(exp);
NodeList nodes = (NodeList) xPathExpression.
evaluate(xmlDocument,XPathConstants.NODESET);
Document newXmlDocument = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
.newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
//Element root = newXmlDocument.createElement("root");
//newXmlDocument.appendChild(root);
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
Node node = nodes.item(i);
Node copyNode = newXmlDocument.importNode(node, true);
newXmlDocument.appendChild(copyNode);
//root.appendChild(copyNode);
}
printXmlDocument(newXmlDocument);
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
This will give you the following output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<markets>
<market>
<name>Real</name>
</market>
<market>
<name>play</name>
</market>
</markets>