com.strangelight.xml
Class XML_File

java.lang.Object
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public class XML_File

extends java.lang.Object

Cleaner interface to the most useful parts of javax.xml.parsers.* and org.w3c.dom.*. The XML_File object encapsulates both a DOM tree and the file from which that DOM was constructed.

Most of the time, DOM objects are constructed from XML files, and changes made to those objects are often written back to disk afterwards: but you'd never guess this fact from looking at Sun's APIs, which make these common tasks utterly tortu(r)ous.

Constructor Summary

XML_File(java.lang.String fileName)
Constructs an XML_File object given a file name.

Method Summary

void	commit() Saves any changes made to the DOM back to the XML source file.
void	writeTo(java.io.Writer w) Writes the current contents of the DOM to a Writer object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

XML_File

public XML_File(java.lang.String fileName)
         throws java.io.IOException,
                org.xml.sax.SAXException,
                javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException

Constructs an XML_File object given a file name.

Parameters:

fileName - The system-dependent filename.

Method Detail

writeTo

public void writeTo(java.io.Writer w)
             throws javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

Writes the current contents of the DOM to a Writer object.

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

commit

public void commit()
            throws javax.xml.transform.TransformerException,
                   java.io.IOException

Saves any changes made to the DOM back to the XML source file.

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException

java.io.IOException