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Language: Java
Expertise: Advanced

Apr 29, 2008

To clone an XML document at runtime, use the StAX XMLEventReader and XMLEventWriter classes like this:

//AirWings_order.xml - the original XML in this example
//AirWings_order_clone.xml - the clone of AirWings_order.xml

import javax.xml.stream.*;
import java.io.*;

public class StAXBasicEventWriter_clone{
   public StAXBasicEventWriter_clone(){}

   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      XMLInputFactory XMLif=null;
      XMLOutputFactory XMLof=null;
      XMLEventReader XMLer=null;
      XMLEventWriter XMLew=null;
             
      System.setProperty("javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory",
         "com.sun.xml.stream.ZephyrParserFactory");     
      System.setProperty("javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory",
         "com.sun.xml.stream.ZephyrWriterFactory");

      //get the XMLInputFactory and XMLOutputFactory objects
      XMLif=XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
      XMLof=XMLOutputFactory.newInstance();
                                   
      //get the XMLEventReader and XMLEventWriter objects
      try{
         XMLer=XMLif.createXMLEventReader           
            ("file:///C://Data_Local//xml//docs//", 
            new FileReader 
            ("C://Data_local//xml//docs//AirWings_order.xml"));
         XMLew=XMLof.createXMLEventWriter(
            new FileWriter
            ("C://Data_local//xml//docs//AirWings_order_clone.xml"));
      }catch(java.io.IOException e)
         {System.out.println(e.getMessage());        
      }catch(javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException e)   
         {System.out.println(e.getMessage());}
                                
      //generate the XML document
      try{
         XMLew.add(XMLer);

         //clean up
         XMLew.close();
         XMLer.close();
      }catch(javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException e)
         {System.out.println(e.getMessage());}           
   }       
}