Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX

Creating XML Documents with JDOM

Let's begin with a simple JDOM program that creates the following XML document:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<GREETING>Hello JDOM!</GREETING>

As all documents should have root elements, we'll need to create the root GREETING element first, then use that element to create the document:

Element root = new Element("GREETING"); 
root.setText("Hello JDOM!");
Document doc = new Document(root);

Note

Initially the Element object is not associated with any Document. It is freestanding. This contrasts with DOM, which requires that all nodes are always part of some document. JDOM allows nodes to stand on their own if that's useful. However, JDOM does not allow a node to be part of two documents at once. Before an Element can ...