Code snippet - XML in Java

XML in Java

//setup a document
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf 
  = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db;
db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.newDocument();

//create a root node
Element rootElement 
  = doc.createElement("root");
doc.appendChild(rootElement);

//get the root node
Element rootNode 
  = document.getDocumentElement();
assert (rootNode != null);

//create an element node
Element newElement 
  = document.createElement("sv:node");
  
//add an attribute
Attr attr 
  = document.createAttribute("name");
attr.setValue(p);

//attach the new node
rootNode.appendChild(newElement);