Using XmlWriter

A great way to output Xml. Far easier to code with than painful DOM or SAX like solutions and much nicer in terms of speed and memory usage [see benchmarks].

Example code:

•         Writer writer = new java.io.StringWriter();
          XmlWriter xmlwriter = new SimpleXmlWriter(writer);
          xmlwriter.writeXmlVersion();
          xmlwriter.writeComment("Example of XmlWriter running");
          xmlwriter.writeEntity("person");
          xmlwriter.writeAttribute("name", "fred");
          xmlwriter.writeAttribute("age", "12");
          xmlwriter.writeEntity("phone");
          xmlwriter.writeText("4254343");
          xmlwriter.endEntity();
          xmlwriter.writeComment("Examples of empty tags");
          xmlwriter.writeEntity("friends");
          xmlwriter.writeEmptyEntity("bob");
          xmlwriter.writeEmptyEntity("jim");
          xmlwriter.endEntity();
          xmlwriter.writeEntityWithText("foo","This is an example.");
          xmlwriter.endEntity();
          xmlwriter.close();
          System.err.println(writer.toString());
      

•         Writer writer = new java.io.StringWriter();
          XmlWriter xmlwriter = new SimpleXmlWriter(writer);
          xmlwriter.writeEntity("person").writeAttribute("name", "fred")
                                         .writeAttribute("age", "12")
                        .writeEntity("phone").writeText("4254343").endEntity()
                        .writeEntity("friends").writeEntity("bob").endEntity()
                                               .writeEntity("jim").endEntity()
                        .endEntity()
                   .endEntity();
          xmlwriter.close();
          System.err.println(writer.toString());