The following complete example will read an existing server.xml
file from the current directory, append a new Server and re-write the file to server.xml
. It does not work without an existing .xml file, so you will need to modify the code to handle that case.
import java.util.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
public class AddXmlNode {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = documentBuilder.parse("server.xml");
Element root = document.getDocumentElement();
Collection<Server> servers = new ArrayList<Server>();
servers.add(new Server());
for (Server server : servers) {
// server elements
Element newServer = document.createElement("server");
Element name = document.createElement("name");
name.appendChild(document.createTextNode(server.getName()));
newServer.appendChild(name);
Element port = document.createElement("port");
port.appendChild(document.createTextNode(Integer.toString(server.getPort())));
newServer.appendChild(port);
root.appendChild(newServer);
}
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document);
TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult("server.xml");
transformer.transform(source, result);
}
public static class Server {
public String getName() { return "foo"; }
public Integer getPort() { return 12345; }
}
}
Example server.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Servers>
<server>
<name>something</name>
<port>port</port>
</server>
</Servers>
The main change to your code is not creating a new “root” element. The above example just uses the current root node from the existing server.xml
and then just appends a new Server element and re-writes the file.