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DOM Load and Save API provides a means for serializing XML data. The following example shows how to serialize an XML DOM document and produce ‘pretty’ indented output.

// First load your xml into a DOM
// That’s covered in another answer (see below)

// then check if DOM Load and Save is supported

DOMImplementationLS DOMiLS = null;
if ((doc.getFeature("Core", "3.0") != null)
	&& (doc.getFeature("LS", "3.0") != null))
{
	// It is support so grab the available implementation

	DOMiLS = (DOMImplementationLS) (doc.getImplementation())
		.getFeature("LS", "3.0");
}
else
{
	throw new RuntimeException("DOM Load and Save unsupported");
}

// Next create your LS output destination

LSOutput lso = DOMiLS.createLSOutput();

// create a stream to write the resulting xml to
// we'll use a file in this example

OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(outFile);
lso.setByteStream(out);

// create a LS serializer
// and tell it to make the output 'pretty'

LSSerializer lss = DOMiLS.createLSSerializer();
lss.getDomConfig().setParameter("format-pretty-print", Boolean.TRUE);

// finally serialize the xml to your output stream

result = lss.write(doc, lso);

out.close();

See also:

• how-do-i-create-a-dom-document-from-an-xml-file

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