How to write rootless list in xml

Question

I want to write an xml file using the following format:

<root>
    <date> 9:51 AM 10/10/2012 </date>
    <responseTime> 1.20</responseTime>
    <employee>
        <name> Mohammad</name>
    </employee>
    <employee>
        <name> Ali</name>
    </employee>
    <employee>
        <name> Mostafa</name>
    </employee>
    <employee>
        <name> Mahmoud</name>
    </employee>
</root>

Can I wrote it using DOM? or should I write it by hand?

(The problem in that the employee node is a sequence without a direct parent node to warp all employee elements without date and responseTime elements)

"The problem in that the employee node is a sequence without a parent node" — What is `` if not a parent node? — Quentin, Oct 10 '12 at 08:24
Have a sequence with date and responseTime followed by 1 or more instances of employee. 1 or more instances of employee can itself be a complex type. — Neil, Oct 10 '12 at 08:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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I don't see the problem with doing it with DOM.

Code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException, TransformerException
{
    DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document document = documentBuilder.newDocument();
    Element root = document.createElement("root");
    document.appendChild(root);

    Element emp1 = document.createElement("employee");
    Element emp1name = document.createElement("name");
    emp1name.setTextContent("Mohammad");
    emp1.appendChild(emp1name);
    Element emp2 = document.createElement("employee");
    Element emp2name = document.createElement("name");
    emp2name.setTextContent("Ali");
    emp2.appendChild(emp2name);

    root.appendChild(emp1);
    root.appendChild(emp2);

    printDocument(document, System.out);
}

Output:

<root>
    <employee>
        <name>Mohammad</name>
    </employee>
    <employee>
        <name>Ali</name>
    </employee>
</root>

You can see the source code for printDocument in this SO Answer.

Full source code can be found here.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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answered Oct 10 '12 at 08:21

RonK

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The major problem I am talking about is to have this sequence with `responseTime` and `date` elements – Muhammad Hewedy Oct 10 '12 at 08:36
@Muhammad - I don't see the problem with the sequence - check this link, it will show you it works fine: http://ideone.com/bfTbl – RonK Oct 10 '12 at 08:47
Ohh, yes. But Can we have an XSD for that? I need to generate such output from some DTO java object to have this xml generated? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12815335/how-to-write-an-xsd-for-a-list-with-no-wrapper-element – Muhammad Hewedy Oct 10 '12 at 08:50
That is a totally different question - this is the 1st time you mentioned an XSD - as far as I know, the answer is yes. You can define an XSD for that. – RonK Oct 10 '12 at 08:57
How to do so?, please follow my question – Muhammad Hewedy Oct 10 '12 at 08:59
I did this at first, please edit your answer so I can undo-downvote. Thanks. – Muhammad Hewedy Oct 11 '12 at 09:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 08:22

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I think you can write that with DOM (the parent node for "employee" is "root"), however it would be nicer to wrap "employee" nodes with "employees" for example...

answered Oct 10 '12 at 08:22

DrArt

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