How to write as XML file using java 1.5

Question

hi all,
i am trying to create an XML file using java 1.5. I took a XML creating java file which was working with java 1.4 and ported same file into java 1.5 with changes according to the SAX and DOM implmentation in java 1.5 and tried to compile. But while writing as a file it throws error "cannot find the symbol."
can any body help me out to solve this issue.......
thankx in advance
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.ParserFactory;
import java.io.*;
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();                   
               dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();                   
Document xmlDoc =  db.newDocument();
// this creates the xml document ref
// parent node reference
Element rootnd = (Element) xmlDoc.createElement("ALL_TABLES");
// root node
xmlDoc.appendChild(rootnd);
Element rownd = (Element) xmlDoc.createElement("ROW");
rootnd.appendChild(rownd);
Element statusnd = (Element) xmlDoc.createElement("FILE_STATUS");
rownd.appendChild(statusnd);
statusnd.appendChild(xmlDoc.createTextNode("Y")
FileOutputStream outpt = new FileOutputStream(outdir + "//forbranch.xml");
Writer outf = new OutputStreamWriter(outpt, "UTF-8");
//error is occuring here Since write method is not available in the Document class
xmlDoc.write(outf);
outf.flush();

Answer 1

Hi,
when I look in the JDK1.4.2 specification I don't see any write method in the Document interface.
However, your solution is the Transformer class. There you transform your DOM tree into any output you need. Your code sould look something like this:     TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
     // set all necessary features for your transformer -> see OutputKeys
     Transformer t = tf.newTransformer();
     t.transform(new DOMSource(xmlDoc), new StreamResult(file));Then you have your XML file stored in the file system.
Hope it helps.