SAXWriter and DOMWriter parse your input file, and print it out in XML format. A command line option can be used to print in a "canonical" XML format so the output can be used to compare XML documents. SAXWriter and DOMWriter also display any errors or warnings that occurred during the parse.

DOMWriter provides a -e switch to set the output Java encoding.

The command lines below expect the current directory to be the directory containing the JAR file.

Requirements:

• Xerces-J is loaded on your computer.
• JDK is loaded on your computer.

Source code:

• SAXWriter.java
• DOMWriter.java

To run SAXWriter:

1. open up a MS-DOS command line window
2. set the path to the jdk\bin directory
3. change directory to the latest xerces-1_4_4 directory
4. invoke the SAXWriter sample

On Windows:

The easiest way to do this is to create a .bat file using the Notepad editor. Then the SAXWriter can be invoked by double clicking on the file name or icon. The following command lines assume that both the jdk and the xerces-1_4_4 directories are located directly below the c: drive.

	set PATH=%PATH%;c:\jdk1.1.8\bin set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;c:\xerces-1_4_4\xerces.jar;c:\xerces-1_4_4\xercesSamples.jar cd c:\xerces-1_4_4 java sax.SAXWriter data/personal.xml

Switches:

SAXCount also allows you to change the default behavior using the following command line flags:

• -p Specify the parser class to be used.
  The available parsers are:
• org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser [default parser]
• -h Print SAXWriter help information. [default is no help]
• -c Output in canonical format. [default is normal format]

Running SAXWriter with the default settings is equivalent to running SAXWriter like this (type this in as one long command line):

	java sax.SAXWriter -p org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser data/personal.xml

Bringing up the help information:

	java sax.SAXWriter -h

Print in canonical format:

	java sax.SAXWriter -c data/personal.xml

Parse your own XML file instead of data/personal.xml

To run DOMWriter:

1. open up a MS-DOS command line window
2. set the path to the jdk\bin directory
3. change directory to the latest xerces-1_4_4 directory
4. invoke the DOMWriter sample

On Windows:

The easiest way to do this is to create a .bat file using the Notepad editor. Then the DOMWriter can be invoked by double clicking on the file name or icon. The following command lines assume that both the jdk and the xerces-1_4_4 directories are located directly below the c: dirve.

	set PATH=%PATH%;c:\jdk1.1.8\bin set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;c:\xerces-1_4_4\xerces.jar;c:\xerces-1_4_4\xercesSamples.jar cd c:\xerces-1_4_4 java dom.DOMWriter data/personal.xml

Switches:

DOMCount also allows you to change the default behavior via the following command line flags (type this in as one long command line):

• -p Specify the parser class to be used.
  The available parsers are:
• dom.wrappers.DOMParser [default parser]
• -h Print DOMWriter help information. [default is no help]
• -c Output in canonical format. [default is normal format]
• -e encodingName Output using the specified encoding. [default is UTF8]

Running DOMWriter with the default settings is equivalent to running DOMWriter like this:

	java dom.DOMWriter -p dom.wrappers.DOMParser data/personal.xml

Bringing up the help information:

	java dom.DOMWriter -h

Searching for elements:

	java dom.DOMWriter -c data/personal.xml

Running DOMWriter with the -e switch and no encoding specified will print out a list of valid encoding names:

	java dom.DOMWriter -e

Prints the following:

	Java Encoding one of (case sensitive): Default 8859_1 8859_2 8859_3 8859_4 8859_5 8859_6 8859_7 8859_8 8859_9 Cp037 Cp273 Cp277 Cp278 Cp280 Cp284 Cp285 Cp297 Cp420 Cp424 Cp437 Cp500 Cp737 Cp775 Cp838 Cp850 Cp852 Cp855 Cp856 Cp857 Cp860 Cp861 Cp862 Cp863 Cp864 Cp865 Cp866 Cp868 Cp869 Cp870 Cp871 Cp874 Cp875 Cp918 Cp921 Cp922 Cp930 Cp933 Cp935 Cp937 Cp939 Cp942 Cp948 Cp949 Cp950 Cp964 Cp970 Cp1006 Cp1025 Cp1026 Cp1046 Cp1097 Cp1098 Cp1112 Cp1122 Cp1123 Cp1124 Cp1250 Cp1251 Cp1252 Cp1253 Cp1254 Cp1255 Cp1256 Cp1257 Cp1258 Cp1381 Cp1383 Cp33722 MS874 DBCS_ASCII DBCS_EBCDIC EUC EUCJIS GB2312 GBK ISO2022CN_CNS ISO2022CN_GB JIS JIS0208 KOI8_R KSC5601 MS874 SJIS SingleByte Big5 CNS11643 MacArabic MacCentralEurope MacCroatian MacCyrillic MacDingbat MacGreek MacHebrew MacIceland MacRoman MacRomania MacSymbol MacThai MacTurkish MacUkraine SJIS Unicode UnicodeBig UnicodeLittle UTF8

Parse your own XML file instead of data/personal.xml