BE THE CODER > XML > XOM Examples

XOM (XML Object Model) is a tree based java API for processing XML by taking the best ideas from SAX and DOM. It is simple, fast and easy to use. This requires the library xom-1.2.7.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows adding an attribute to a specific element.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/xom/tests/AddAttribute.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.xom.tests;



import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.Random;



import nu.xom.Attribute;

import nu.xom.Document;

import nu.xom.Element;

import nu.xom.Serializer;



public class AddAttribute {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    Document doc = new Document(new Element("RandomNumbers"));

    

    Random random = new Random();

    int randNum;

    Element ranEle = null;

    Attribute attribute = null;

    

    for (int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i ++) {

      randNum = random.nextInt(1729);

      //Create a new attribute with boolean string as value

      attribute = new Attribute("even", String.valueOf(randNum % 2 == 0));

      

      ranEle = new Element("Number");

      ranEle.appendChild(String.valueOf(randNum));

      ranEle.addAttribute(attribute); //Add the new attribute

      

      //Append the newly created child element

      doc.getRootElement().appendChild(ranEle);

    }

    

    //Pretty print

    Serializer serializer = new Serializer(System.out, "UTF-8");

    serializer.setIndent(4);

    serializer.write(doc);

    serializer.flush();

  }



}

Add Attribute