// Create a DocumentBuilderFactory and a DocumentBuilder
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
// Instead of parsing an XML document, however, just create an empty
// document that you can build up yourself.
Document document = db.newDocument();
// Now build a document tree using DOM methods
Element book = document.createElement("book"); // Create new element
book.setAttribute("id", "javanut4"); // Give it an attribute
document.appendChild(book); // Add to the document
for(int i = 1; i <= 3; i++) { // Add more elements
Element chapter = document.createElement("chapter");
Element title = document.createElement("title");
title.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Chapter " + i));
chapter.appendChild(title);
chapter.appendChild(document.createElement("para"));
book.appendChild(chapter);
}
// Now create a TransformerFactory and use it to create a Transformer
// object to transform our DOM document into a stream of XML text.
// No arguments to newTransformer() means no XSLT stylesheet
TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
// Create the Source and Result objects for the transformation
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document); // DOM document
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(System.out); // to XML text
// Finally, do the transformation
transformer.transform(source, result);
