XML formatting not fine in a text editor

Question

Hello Experts,
am generating an xml file through a java program using javax.xml.parsers.
Following is the format of file (say for eg) generated when i see in notepad
<root><tag1>val1</tag1><tag2>val2</tag2></root>
which is not required. I want the file to be in the following format.
<root>
     <tag1>val1</tag1>
     <tag2>val2</tag2>
</root>
When the file is viewed in any browser, it is fine but is getting messy in a text editor.
Please Help. It would be really appreciated.
Regards
Priya

Answer 1

idTransform2.setOutputProperty("indent", "yes");
"indent" property is used for that purpose,use the following program.
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
public class SocketExample
     * @param args
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws ParserConfigurationException
     * @throws TransformerException
     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, ParserConfigurationException, TransformerException
          DocumentBuilderFactory fact = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          DocumentBuilder parser = fact.newDocumentBuilder();
          Document doc = parser.newDocument();
          Node root = doc.createElement("request");
          doc.appendChild(root);
          Node Last_Name_Node = doc.createElement("Last_Name");
root.appendChild(Last_Name_Node);
Last_Name_Node.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("Last_Name"));
Node Title_Node = doc.createElement("Title");
root.appendChild(Title_Node);
Title_Node.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("Title"));
// setting Servcie Address1
Node Service_Address1_Node = doc.createElement("Service_Address1");
root.appendChild( Service_Address1_Node);
Service_Address1_Node.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("Service_Address1"));
          TransformerFactory xformFactory2 = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
          Transformer idTransform2 = xformFactory2.newTransformer();
          javax.xml.transform.Source input2 = new DOMSource(doc);
          javax.xml.transform.Result output2 = new StreamResult(new java.io.FileWriter("d:/webapp.log",true));
          idTransform2.setOutputProperty("indent", "yes");
          idTransform2.transform(input2, output2);
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BhavaniRajan