Saving an XML document

In this section, we will save a DOMDocument object to an XML document using the DOM 3.0 Load and Save API. We shall use the LSerializer interface to save the XML document.

Creating a document object

First, create an XMLDOMImplementation class object. The XMLDOMImplementation class implements the DOMImplementationLS interface and has methods to create Load and Save objects.

XMLDOMImplementation impl = new XMLDOMImplementation();

Create an org.w3c.dom.Document object from the XMLDOMImplementation object using the createDocument(java.lang.String namespaceURI,java.lang.String qualifiedName, DocumentType doctype) method. Rather logically, the parameter namespaceURI specifies the namespace URI of the document element. The parameter qualifiedName specifies the qualified name of the document element, and the parameter doctype specifies the DOCTYPE of the XML document.

Document document = impl.createDocument(null, null, null);

Create and add elements and attributes to the XML...