com.generationjava.io.xml
Class SimpleXmlWriter

java.lang.Object
  com.generationjava.io.xml.AbstractXmlWriter
      com.generationjava.io.xml.SimpleXmlWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:

XmlWriter

public class SimpleXmlWriter
extends AbstractXmlWriter

Makes writing XML much much easier. Improved from article

Version:

1.0

Author:

Henri Yandell, Peter Cassetta

Constructor Summary

SimpleXmlWriter(Writer writer)
Create an SimpleXmlWriter on top of an existing java.io.Writer.

Method Summary

void	close() Close this writer.
XmlWriter	endEntity() End the current entity.
String	getDefaultNamespace()
Writer	getWriter() Obtain the Writer that is at the lowest level of this XmlWriter chain
void	setDefaultNamespace(String namespace) The default namespace.
XmlWriter	writeAttribute(String attr, Object value) Write an attribute out for the current entity.
XmlWriter	writeCData(String cdata) Write out a chunk of CDATA.
XmlWriter	writeComment(String comment) Write out a chunk of comment.
XmlWriter	writeEntity(String name) Begin to write out an entity.
XmlWriter	writeText(Object text) Output body text.
XmlWriter	writeXmlVersion(String version, String encoding, String standalone) Output the version, encoding and standalone nature of an xml file.

Methods inherited from class com.generationjava.io.xml.AbstractXmlWriter

writeEmptyEntity, writeEntityWithText, writeXmlVersion, writeXmlVersion

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SimpleXmlWriter

public SimpleXmlWriter(Writer writer)

Create an SimpleXmlWriter on top of an existing java.io.Writer.

Method Detail

setDefaultNamespace

public void setDefaultNamespace(String namespace)

The default namespace. Once this is turned on, any new entities will have this namespace, regardless of scope.

Parameters:

String - nname of the namespace

getDefaultNamespace

public String getDefaultNamespace()

writeXmlVersion

public XmlWriter writeXmlVersion(String version,
                                 String encoding,
                                 String standalone)
                          throws IOException

Output the version, encoding and standalone nature of an xml file.

Throws:

IOException

writeEntity

public XmlWriter writeEntity(String name)
                      throws IOException

Begin to write out an entity. Unlike the helper tags, this tag will need to be ended with the endEntity method.

Parameters:

name - String name of tag

Throws:

IOException

writeAttribute

public XmlWriter writeAttribute(String attr,
                                Object value)
                         throws IOException

Write an attribute out for the current entity. Any xml characters in the value are escaped. Currently it does not actually throw the exception, but the api is set that way for future changes.

Parameters:

String - name of attribute.

Object - value of attribute.

Throws:

IOException

endEntity

public XmlWriter endEntity()
                    throws IOException

End the current entity. This will throw an exception if it is called when there is not a currently open entity.

Throws:

IOException

close

public void close()
           throws IOException

Close this writer. It does not close the underlying writer, but does flush it and throw an exception if there are as yet unclosed tags.

Throws:

IOException

writeText

public XmlWriter writeText(Object text)
                    throws IOException

Output body text. Any xml characters are escaped.

Throws:

IOException

writeCData

public XmlWriter writeCData(String cdata)
                     throws IOException

Write out a chunk of CDATA. This helper method surrounds the passed in data with the CDATA tag.

Parameters:

String - of CDATA text.

Throws:

IOException

writeComment

public XmlWriter writeComment(String comment)
                       throws IOException

Write out a chunk of comment. This helper method surrounds the passed in data with the xml comment tag.

Parameters:

String - of text to comment.

Throws:

IOException

getWriter

public Writer getWriter()

Description copied from interface: XmlWriter

Obtain the Writer that is at the lowest level of this XmlWriter chain