Creating Multiple Child Nodes in XML for Java

Question

I need to create multiple Child Nodes in one element node in XML, do I just append as many times as required to create these nodes? Like this:

rootElement.appendChild(creator);
creator.appendChild(name);
creator.appendChild(email);
creator.appendChild(name);
creator.appendChild(email);

Or does java automatically create the extra child nodes whenever I do this:

name.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("Bob"));
email.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("[email protected]"));
name.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("Smith"));
email.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("[email protected]"));

I'm not too sure how it works, any advice or help would be appreciated!

Chris Gerken · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-11 13:02:47Z

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Behavior varies across different implementations, but in general you want to go with the second approach.

When appending or adding a child to a parent the previous parent is replaced. This means that the first approach does nothing but shuffle the same to children. The second approach is correct because you create new children as you go and the previously added children remain untouched by later API calls.

answered Oct 11, 2012 at 13:02

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SNpn Over a year ago

do you know how to write the XML file to a specified folder?

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