How to add a node to XML with XMLBeans XmlObject

Question

My goal is to take an XML string and parse it with XMLBeans XmlObject and add a few child nodes.

Here's an example document (xmlString),

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootNode>
 <person>
  <emailAddress>[email protected]</emailAddress>
 </person>
</rootNode>

Here's the way I'd like the XML document to be after adding some nodes,

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootNode>
 <person>
  <emailAddress>[email protected]</emailAddress>
  <phoneNumbers>
   <home>555-555-5555</home>
   <work>555-555-5555</work>
  <phoneNumbers>
 </person>
</rootNode>

Basically, just adding the <phoneNumbers/> node with two child nodes <home/> and <work/>.

This is as far as I've gotten,

XmlObject xml = XmlObject.Factory.parse(xmlString);

Thank you

Answer 1

It may be a little difficult to manipulate the objects using just the XmlObject interface. Have you considered generating the XMLBEANS java objects from this xml?

If you don't have XSD for this schema you can generate it using XMLSPY or some such tools.

If you just want XML manipulation (i.e, adding nodes) you could try some other APIs like jdom or xstream or some such thing.

Answer 2

XMLBeans seems like a hassle, here's a solution using xom:

import nu.xom.*;

Builder = new Builder();
Document doc = builder.build(new java.io.StringBufferInputStream(inputXml));
Nodes nodes = doc.query("person");
Element homePhone = new Element("home");
homePhone.addChild(new Text("555-555-5555"));
Element workPhone = new Element("work");
workPhone.addChild(new Text("555-555-5555"));
Element phoneNumbers = new Element("phoneNumbers");
phoneNumbers.addChild(homePhone);
phoneNumbers.addChild(workPhone);
nodes[0].addChild(phoneNumbers);
System.out.println(doc.toXML()); // should print modified xml