How to Iterate an XML Table With Sax
Extensible Markup Language, or XML, documents are custom-structured data documents often sent in the form of feeds and are used to dynamically update content areas and databases that operate websites and web applications. Serving as an application programming interface, or API, StaX is a special API that enables real-time parsing of XML data. Iterating, or building, a table of XML data using the StAX API is often an efficient way of pulling data that needs frequent updates.
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Instructions
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Launch a plain text editing application, or your favored code editing application, and create a new Java document, inserting the following line of code at the top:
import javax.xml.stream.*;
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Initiate the XMLWriter class by first defining the class and then defining the XML source:
private static final String EXAMPLE = "http://www.examplexmlwebsite.com/feed.xml";
private static final String XHTML = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
public static void main(String[] args) throws XMLStreamException {
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Create a place for the outputted XML data and store it by using the following code:
XMLOutputFactory xmlof = XMLOutputFactory.newInstance():
xmlof.setProperty("java.xml.stream.isPrefixDefaulting".Boolean.TRUE):
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Create a writer for the XML data by using the StreamWriter function as follows:
XMLStreamWriter xmlw =
xmlof.createXMLStreamWriter(System.out):
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Save the Java document and upload it to your development environment or production environment to view the XML data and see the table build as the XML data set grows.
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