DomWriter.java

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package org.nimbustools.auto_common.confmgr;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import java.io.File;

public class DomWriter {

    public void writeDOM(Document doc, String path) throws Exception {

        final Source source = new DOMSource(doc);
        final File docfile = new File(path);

        // unfortunately the following simple solution breaks on JDK1.5+
        // because of this bug: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-1978
        // and so the implementation is overriden to fix the bug
        System.setProperty("javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory",
                           "org.nimbustools.auto_common.confmgr.TransformerFactory");

        final Result xformresult = new StreamResult(docfile);
        final Transformer xform =
                TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
        xform.transform(source, xformresult);
    }

}