Writing a tempfile that doesn't always the write full amount of data

Question

I am writing my xml string to a text file so I can parse the xml in my servlet. Most of the time it works great, but it sometimes the output does not contain all the data I am trying to write.
I can successfuly write files as long a 62,000 characters but some times the data is truncated and I get a
SaxparserException because the xml is not complete.
We are using JavaTM 2 Platform Std. Ed. v1.3.
Here is my code - could someone please tell me if there is a size limit... etc..
public Document parseV(String xmlFile) throws Exception {
File temp = File.createTempFile("PolicySummary", ".aocs");
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter (new FileWriter(temp), xmlFile.length()));
out.print(xmlFile);
System.out.println("temp file " + temp.getAbsolutePath());
String xmlPath = temp.getAbsolutePath();
try {
// Get a new parser and attach an error handler
DOMParser myParser = new DOMParser();
// Parse the file
myParser.parse(xmlPath);
out.close();
out.flush();
temp.deleteOnExit();
document = myParser.getDocument();
return document;
} catch (MalformedURLException e) { System.err.println("Problem Parsing XML file, tag missing : " );
return null;
Is there a better way??
Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

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First, calling flush() after calling close() does nothing. Second, since you use a BufferedWriter and parse before you close/flush, you're not getting all the content. move your delete the call to flush(), and move your out.close() statement before your parse() call.