Xml help with project?

Question

Hey guys, Java newbie here, was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction.
so my co-worker gave me a folder with a bunch of .tif image files and one .xml file. I'm supposed to write Java code to copy a folder with the same name as the folder he gave me, and copy the .xml file into that folder. so the end result is that we have the original folder w/ the .tif files and .xml file, and one copy folder with the same name with a copy of the .xml file in it.
this is the code that i have so far:
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import java.io.File;
public class FileCopy{
public static void copyFile(Document source, Document target)
Node node = target.importNode(source.getDocumentElement(), true);
target.getDocumentElement().appendChild(node);
static void report(boolean b){
     System.out.println(b ? "success" : "failure");
public static void main(String args[]){
     boolean status;
     status = new File("/project1").mkdirs();
     report(status);
some of my questions are:
A) how do i copy the exact name of the folder / .xml file?
B) how do i even create a new blank .xml file for which i can use copyFile to copy over? (note it needs both a source and a target)
C) how do i find the .xml file in the folder in which he gave me?
Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

rzhang10 wrote:
Okay, but how do I ensure that the file I copied will be a .xml file?Mixing up of tenses leading to ambiguity! Bottom line: if it was XML, and you copy it, it will be XML.
here is a copyFile function I found on the web:
public static void copyFile(File in, File out) throws IOException{
          FileChannel inChannel = new FileInputStream(in).getChannel();
          FileChannel outChannel = new FileOutputStream(out).getChannel();
          try{
               inChannel.transferTo(0 , inChannel.size(), outChannel);
          catch(IOException e){
               throw e;
          finally{
               if(inChannel != null) inChannel.close();
               if(outChannel != null) outChannel.close();
are you saying that this code would be sufficient to copy an .xml file? everytime I've tried it, it reproduces a .txt file.An XML file is a text file.