outputting an xml output to the system.out

I've increased the points.

Or does anybody know any other way to output the org.w3c.dom.Document to the system.out.println?

"Writing Out a DOM as an XML File"

http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp-1.1/docs/tutorial/xslt/2_write.html


In JAXP 1.1 :-

import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;

//now write out to FileStream
TransformerFactory transformerFactory =
           TransformerFactory.newInstance();

 Transformer serializer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();

serializer.transform( new DOMSource( document ),
           new StreamResult( new FileOutputStream( "intro1.xml" ) ) );

HTH

is there another way to output to the xmldoc to a string?  I'm trying to use the transformer stuff but it turns out to be opening a can of worms because I get constant errors that I am missing a bunch of classes.  Is there a simple way?!  If I try a toString() method, all it returns is a "[#document: null]"!

There is no toString() method. Microsoft has an xml() method which returns an XML string - but the other people think that this is too simple.

I've put it into a file, but to put it into a string you'll need to replace my FileOutputStream with a StringWriter :-

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

<code as above but sw replaces new FileOutputStream( "intro1.xml" )>

then sw.toString() gets the string out of the StringBuffer object in the StringWriter.

OK?

Yes, there is a toString() method and I have used it(at least in my dom, but it is not listed in any Javadoc).

But like I said above, I'm trying to avoid right now using Transformers because when I use it, I get unsatisfield link errors because its looking for a bunch of classes I don't have.  Isn't there an easy way to get the xml?

I am using the IBM Parser for Java.

"Yes, there is a toString() method and I have used it(at least in my dom, but it is not listed in any Javadoc)."

and does this return the XML string representation for the DOM? (as in Microsoft)?

If not you're goind to have to do it by hand :-

private toXML(Node node) {
   String str = '';
   children = node.getChildren();
   for (......) {
     if children[i]=TEXT_NODE then
        str = str + children[i].text()}
     else
        str = str + toXML(children[i]);
     }
   return str;

}

if you get what I mean without me writing syntatically correct Java"!

I was able to get the classes that the tranformfactory needs but when I try to use your suggestion to convert it to a string, I get the following error below:

What can be wrong?
java.lang.AbstractMethodError
     java.lang.Throwable()
     java.lang.Error()
     java.lang.LinkageError()
     java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError()
     java.lang.AbstractMethodError()
     java.lang.String org.apache.xpath.DOM2Helper.getNamespaceOfNode(org.w3c.dom.Node)
     java.lang.String org.apache.xpath.DOM2Helper.getNamespaceOfNode(org.w3c.dom.Node)
     void org.apache.xml.utils.TreeWalker.startNode(org.w3c.dom.Node)
     void org.apache.xml.utils.TreeWalker.traverse(org.w3c.dom.Node)
     void org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(javax.xml.transform.Source, javax.xml.transform.Result)

I gave up on using the transformer and displaying the xml for now so I'll be generous enough to give you my 200 points for your help.  I am just looping through the nodes right now.