String is broken while writing to Socket Outputstream

Question

Hi all,
I am constructing an XML response in the following way
public String constructXML() {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append("<emp>");
sb.append("<emp id="\"");
sb.append(empInfo.getEmpID());
sb.append("\"");
sb.append("<emp name="\"");
sb.append(empInfo.getEmpName());
sb.append("\"");
sb.append("<emp age="\"");
sb.append(empInfo.getEmpAge());
sb.append("\"");
sb.append("</emp>");
return sb.toString();
}In another method, I am opening a socket and writing to the outputstream
public void writeToSim(String response) {
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);
out.println(response);
out.flush();
out.close();
}My constructed xml response is very huge and I am getting the response like this
<emp>
<emp id="111"/>
<emp name="sss"/>
<emp age = "33"/>
</emp>
<emp>
<emp i d="111"/> // note the space between i and d.
<emp name="sss"/>
<emp age = "33"/>
</emp>
<emp>
<emp id="111"/>
<emp name="sss"/>
<emp a ge = "33"/> // note the whitespace between a and ge
</emp>
I dont know how these tags are broken. Could any one give me a pointer?

Answer 1

That source code can't possibly produce that output. All the inner <emp> elements are terminated by /> in the output you've shown, but there's nothing in the code you've shown that creates the terminating />.
So check your source code. None of the methods you are calling will insert a space. Clearly it is your actual source code that's doing that, or something you haven't shown here.
BTW this is very strange XML. You normally wouldn't have <emp> elements inside another <emp> element anyway. Are you sure this is what's required? I suspect it should really look like this:
<emp id="111" age="3" ... />
or
<emp>
<id>111</id>
<age>33</age>
</emp>
or possibly
<emp>
<id value="111"/>
<age value="33"/>
</emp>