Writing a large xml string to a file

Question

Hi,
I get a large xml file, into a String (It might be around 8 MB also). After this, I need to write this to a file. Which java method I can use for the same.
I am getting confused by the various classes for writing a file.
I want to use the best, efficient way of doing this. Can any one please help?
public static void writeStringToFile( String fileName, String content,
          boolean append )
          throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
          FileOutputStream fos = null;
          File file = new File (fileName);
          try {
//++  fos = new FileOutputStream( file);     
      fos = new FileOutputStream( file, append );                 //++
               fos.write(getBytes(content));
          } catch (FileNotFoundException fne) {
               throw fne;
          } catch (IOException ioe) {
               throw ioe;
          } finally {
               try {
               if(fos != null)
                    fos.close();
               } catch (Exception _ex) {
     }

Answer 1

hi_all wrote:
But is there any any particular reason for using the encoding specific to xml?Yes, because that's what the XML specification says you're supposed to do. If you don't do that then you may produce malformed XML.
Will there be any perf degrade or truncation of the large string, while writing to the file, if we use,
out.write(sigUpdateString);Compared to what? You're just writing the data out to a file, the quickest way to do that is to just write the data out. The two things you should do are: (1) use a BufferedWriter (2) stop obsessing about performance.