What I Learned Today » xml http://christiansons.net/mike/blog Mike Christianson's journal of Java, Ant, SVN, Jetty, cygwin and other stuff. Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:24:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Pretty XML from XOM http://christiansons.net/mike/blog/2008/11/pretty-xml-from-xom/ http://christiansons.net/mike/blog/2008/11/pretty-xml-from-xom/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:44:54 +0000 Mike Christianson http://blog.christiansons.net/?p=13 Getting nicely indented XML from XOM as a String is not intuitive. One might reasonably expect to try document.toXML() only to find the output lacking indentation.

Here’s how I used XOM’s Serializer and Java’s ByteArrayOutputStream to produce pretty XML.

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ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
Serializer serializer = new Serializer(out, "UTF-8");
serializer.setIndent(2);
serializer.write(document);
String xml = out.toString("UTF-8");
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