Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

RecordWriter Base Class (Extends RecordHandler)

Overview

This class provides basic support for writing records from XML documents to non-XML-formatted files. As with the RecordReader, many of the methods are used in the derived classes, though some are overridden. Again, we will add methods as we build the various utilities.

Attributes:

• Output Stream

Methods:

• Constructor

• parseRecord

• writeRecord (virtual)

Methods

Constructor

Like the constructor for the RecordReader, the RecordWriter's constructor function doesn't do very much, either. The basic version of the constructor takes a single argument of the file description document, then passes it to the base class RecordHandler constructor. The other version takes a second argument of the Output Stream ...