stax - get xml node as string

Question

xml looks like so:

   
      ...stuff...
   
   
              


        

Answer 1

You can use StAX for this. You just need to advance the XMLStreamReader to the start element for statement. Check the account attribute to get the file name. Then use the javax.xml.transform APIs to transform the StAXSource to a StreamResult wrapping a File. This will advance the XMLStreamReader and then just repeat this process.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.stax.StAXSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception  {
        XMLInputFactory xif = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
        XMLStreamReader xsr = xif.createXMLStreamReader(new FileReader("input.xml"));
        xsr.nextTag(); // Advance to statements element

        while(xsr.nextTag() == XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT) {
            TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer t = tf.newTransformer();
            File file = new File("out" + xsr.getAttributeValue(null, "account") + ".xml");
            t.transform(new StAXSource(xsr), new StreamResult(file));
        }
    }

}