Changeset 28849

Timestamp:

2014-02-27T11:19:58+13:00 (10 years ago)

Author:

kjdon

Message:

added writeDOM method

File:

• main/trunk/greenstone3/src/java/org/greenstone/gsdl3/util/XMLConverter.java (modified) (2 diffs)

main/trunk/greenstone3/src/java/org/greenstone/gsdl3/util/XMLConverter.java

@@ -35 +35 @@
 
 // other java classes
+import java.io.BufferedWriter;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.Reader;
@@ -623 +625 @@
         }
     }
+
+  public boolean writeDOM(Element elem, File file) {
+
+    BufferedWriter writer = null;
+    boolean success = false;
+    try {
+      String xml_string = getString(elem);
+      // need createNewFile???
+      writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
+      writer.write(xml_string);
+      success = true;
+    }
+
+    catch (Exception e) {
+      logger.error(e.getMessage());
+      success = false;
+    }
+    finally {
+      try {
+    if (writer != null) {
+      writer.close();
+    }
+      } catch(Exception e) {
+    logger.error("couldn't close the file"+e.getMessage());
+      }
+    }
+    return success;
+  }
 }