Appending a new node or a child node using Dom4j

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I am stuck at updating an existing XML document. I have to add another element to the root node. I need to append it, but using XMLWriter, it is overriding the object and all the old data is lost. How can I add another node to the exisitng document?

That is, appending. I am using the Dom4j library.

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 21 '11 at 22:05

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XMLWriter is not the way to go. You can append, delete or otherwise manipulate nodes quite easily using the methods in the Node class and its subclasses. For example:

Element root = document.getRootElement();
Element author = root.addElement("author");

edited Dec 21 '11 at 22:05

Peter Mortensen

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answered Aug 25 '11 at 15:07

Simone Gianni

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how to load an existing document to append more data and save it once the job is done? dom4j doesn't have much support:( – user896456 Aug 25 '11 at 15:11
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@user896456, why don't you read the documentation at http://dom4j.sourceforge.net/dom4j-1.6.1/ ? Start with the cookbook section. – forty-two Aug 25 '11 at 15:41

Appending a new node or a child node using Dom4j

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