Write HTML file using Java

Question

I want my Java application to write HTML code in a file. Right now, I am hard coding HTML tags using java.io.BufferedWriter class. For Example:

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Answer 1

Templates and other methods based on preliminary creation of the document in memory are likely to impose certain limits on resulting document size.

Meanwhile a very straightforward and reliable write-on-the-fly approach to creation of plain HTML exists, based on a SAX handler and default XSLT transformer, the latter having intrinsic capability of HTML output:

String encoding = "UTF-8";
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("myfile.html");
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, encoding);
StreamResult streamResult = new StreamResult(writer);

SAXTransformerFactory saxFactory =
    (SAXTransformerFactory) TransformerFactory.newInstance();
TransformerHandler tHandler = saxFactory.newTransformerHandler();
tHandler.setResult(streamResult);

Transformer transformer = tHandler.getTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "html");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, encoding);
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");

writer.write("\n");
writer.flush();
tHandler.startDocument();
    tHandler.startElement("", "", "html", new AttributesImpl());
        tHandler.startElement("", "", "head", new AttributesImpl());
            tHandler.startElement("", "", "title", new AttributesImpl());
                tHandler.characters("Hello".toCharArray(), 0, 5);
            tHandler.endElement("", "", "title");
        tHandler.endElement("", "", "head");
        tHandler.startElement("", "", "body", new AttributesImpl());
            tHandler.startElement("", "", "p", new AttributesImpl());
                tHandler.characters("5 > 3".toCharArray(), 0, 5); // note '>' character
            tHandler.endElement("", "", "p");
        tHandler.endElement("", "", "body");
    tHandler.endElement("", "", "html");
tHandler.endDocument();
writer.close();

Note that XSLT transformer will release you from the burden of escaping special characters like >, as it takes necessary care of it by itself.

And it is easy to wrap SAX methods like startElement() and characters() to something more convenient to one's taste...