JDOM Element Example, How to set attribute of xml element in java.

In this tutorial, you will see how to set attribute of xml element in java.

In this tutorial, you will see how to set attribute of xml element in java.

JDOM Element Example, How to set attribute of xml element in java.

In this tutorial, we will see how to set attribute of xml element in java with the help of
JDOM library. JDOM is used for parsing, creating, manipulating, and serializing XML
documents.

In this example, we will use some methods. DOMBuilder is a class that build a
JDOMDocument of xml file. The getRootElement method of Document class is
used for accessing root element. The setAttribute(String name, String value)
method set a attribute of an element with given name and value. The Element class
is available in org.jdom.Element pacakage.

Element API.

Return Type	Method	Description
Element	setAttribute(String name, String value)	The setAttribute(.....) method set attribute of element.

Code:

student.xml


<?xml version="1.0"?>

<Student >

  <info id="1"  >

    <first name="bharat">bly </first>

      </info>

  <info  id="2">

    <first name="ankit" >lko</first>    

  </info>

  <info id="3" >

    <first name="gyan">bly</first>

    </info>

</Student>

CloneAttribute.java


package roseindia;



import org.jdom.Attribute;

import org.jdom.Document;

import org.jdom.Element;

import org.jdom.input.DOMBuilder;

import java.io.File;



public class SetAttribute {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    try {

      String data = "student.xml";

      File file = new File(data);

      DOMBuilder builder = new DOMBuilder(false);

      Document doc = builder.build(file);

      Element root = doc.getRootElement();

      System.out.println("Root Element" + root);

      Element att = root.setAttribute("id", "001");

      Attribute attribute = att.getAttribute("id");

      System.out.println("Atttribute : " + attribute);

    } catch (Exception e) {

      System.out.println("Execption " + e.getMessage());

    }

  }

}

Output:

Root Element[Element: <Student/>]
Atttribute : [Attribute: id="001"]

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