Java XML Dom Example,Java XML Element,Java XML Element Value,XML Element Value

Regenerating XML file

In this section, you will learn to get the elements and its value using DOM APIs.

Description of program:

This example parses a xml file and regenerates it at the console using the DOM APIs. This program takes a XML file and initially checks its availability . If file exists then it creates DocumentBuilderFactory. This object creates a DocumentBuilder which parses the XML document using the parse() method. It invokes the DocumentBuilder object and creates a Document object. Through this object you create DOM tree nodes by using the getDocumentElement() method and passes it to the DOMSource(). The DOMSource constructor creates a new input source with a DOM node. And the destination source (where you recieve the result) uses the StreamResult() constructor. Here the "System.out" shows the result on the console.

<?xml version = "1.0" ?>
<Employee-Detail>

<Employee>
<Emp_Id> E-001 </Emp_Id>
<Emp_Name> Vinod </Emp_Name>
<Emp_E-mail> Vinod1@yahoo.com </Emp_E-mail>
</Employee>

<Employee>
<Emp_Id> E-002 </Emp_Id>
<Emp_Name> Amit </Emp_Name>
<Emp_E-mail> Amit2@yahoo.com </Emp_E-mail>
</Employee>

<Employee>
<Emp_Id> E-003 </Emp_Id>
<Emp_Name> Deepak </Emp_Name>
<Emp_E-mail> Deepak3@yahoo.com </Emp_E-mail>
</Employee>

</Employee-Detail>


import java.io.*;

import org.w3c.dom.*;

import org.xml.sax.*;

import javax.xml.parsers.*;

import javax.xml.transform.*; 

import javax.xml.transform.dom.*; 

import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;



public class GetElementsDOM{

  static public void main(String[] arg)throws Exception{

    BufferedReader bf = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

    System.out.print("Enter XML File Name: ");

    String xmlFile = bf.readLine();

    File file = new File(xmlFile);

    if(file.exists()){

      try {

        // Create a factory 

        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

        // Use document builder factory

        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();

        //Parse the document

        Document doc = builder.parse(xmlFile); 

        TransformerFactory tranFact = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); 

        Transformer transfor = tranFact.newTransformer(); 

        Node node =doc.getDocumentElement();

        Source src = new DOMSource(node); 

        Result dest = new StreamResult(System.out);

        transfor.transform(src, dest);

      }

      catch (Exception e) {

        System.err.println(e);

      }

    }

    else{

      System.out.print("File not found!");

    }

  }

}

Output of this program:

C:\vinod\xml>javac GetElementsDOM.java

C:\vinod\xml>java GetElementsDOM
Enter XML File Name: Employee-Detail.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Employee-Detail>
<Employee>
<Emp_Id> E-001 </Emp_Id>
<Emp_Name> Vinod </Emp_Name>
<Emp_E-mail> Vinod1@yahoo.com </Emp_E-mail>
</Employee>

<Employee>
<Emp_Id> E-002 </Emp_Id>
<Emp_Name> Amit </Emp_Name>
<Emp_E-mail> Amit2@gmail.com </Emp_E-mail>
</Employee>

<Employee>
<Emp_Id> E-003 </Emp_Id>
<Emp_Name> Deepak </Emp_Name>
<Emp_E-mail> Deepak3@hotmail.com </Emp_E-mail>
</Employee>

</Employee-Detail>