On 12/04/2008, Mukul Gandhi <> wrote:
> 1) Is it possible to pretty print the output?
Yes - have a look at OutputKeys
> 2) Is this approach faster than using DOM serialization?
Probably... is performance an issue?
> 3) Here I am using the transformer functionality for creating XML,
> which looks more like a XSLT feature (i.e., transformation task).
> Should we not have this capability in the XML parser (for e.g., in
> Xerces)? Should we have something like xml-writer (which Rob pointed)
> built into Xerces (possibly as an enhancement)?
Reading and writing XML in Java is a pain, which is why so many people
just construct a string that looks like XML (and incur the pain
later). This technique isn't a hack, but it's an easy way if you're
used to writing transforms. Try some of the others - JDOM, XOM, StAX
(or Java 6) etc. and see which you prefer.
It would be really nice if you could just annotate a pojo and persist
that to XML, ala JPA...
> mentioned with xml-writer. Why does the implementation doesn't ensure
> this?
>
> For e.g, I am able to produce this as well using this code:
> <x><y attr1="123" attr2="456"><z/></y></t> (please note, a wrong tag
> </t> here).
That looks like a problem with Xalan...
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