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 serializing an XML document with complex character data.

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


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.xom.tests;



import java.io.IOException;



import nu.xom.Attribute;

import nu.xom.Document;

import nu.xom.Element;

import nu.xom.Serializer;

import nu.xom.Text;



public class SerializeCDATA {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   */

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

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

    Element script = new Element("script");

    script.addAttribute(new Attribute("id", "function_signum"));

    doc.getRootElement().appendChild(script);

    

    String jsFunction = "function signum(a) {" +

                "if (a > 0) {" + 

                "  return 1;" + 

                "} else if (a < 0) {" +

                "  return -1;" +

                "}" + 

                "return 0;" +  

              "}";  

    

    Text cdata = new Text(jsFunction);

    script.appendChild(cdata);

    

    //Pretty print

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

    serializer.setIndent(4);

    serializer.write(doc);

    serializer.flush();

  }



}

Serialize CDATA