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Adding element to XML using javax parser without document modification

i am trying to add elements to xml document. Elements are added successfuly but problem is, that parser modifies original xml file in other places e.g it swaps namespace and id attributes or deletes duplicate namespace definitions. I need to get precisely the same document (same syntax, preserved whitespaces) only with specific elements added. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Here is my code:
public void appendTimestamp(String timestamp, String signedXMLFile, String timestampedXMLFile){
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
try{
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(new File(signedXMLFile));
XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
NodeList list = (NodeList)xPath.evaluate("//*[local-name()='Signature']/*[local-name()='Object']/*[local-name()='QualifyingProperties']", doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
if(list.getLength() != 1){
throw new Exception();
}
Node node = list.item(0);
Node unsignedProps = doc.createElement("xades:UnsignedProperties");
Node unsignedSignatureProps = doc.createElement("xzep:UnsignedSignatureProperties");
Node timestampNode = doc.createElement("xzep:SignatureTimeStamp");
timestampNode.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(timestamp));
unsignedSignatureProps.appendChild(timestampNode);
unsignedProps.appendChild(unsignedSignatureProps);
node.appendChild(unsignedProps);
Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "no");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
StreamResult stringWriter = new StreamResult(writer);
transformer.transform(source, stringWriter);
writer.flush();
System.out.println(writer.toString());
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
The original xml file:
...
<ds:Object Id="objectIdVerificationObject" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
...
Modified xml file:
...
<ds:Object xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" Id="objectIdVerificationObject">
...

If you use the dom model, then the whole xml file is read, then represented in the memory as the node tree and then saved to xml in a way determined by the writer. So it is almost impossible to preserve the original xml format as you don't have the control over it and for example whitespaces are not represented at all in the node tree.
You need to read partially the original xml and ouptut its content to the new file preserving what was read, then in the "right" place you need to add your new content adn then continue simple coapying of the original.
For example you could use the XMLStreamWriter and XMLStreamReader to achieve that as they offer "the low" level operations.
But probably it would be much easier to just copy the xml as the text line by one till you recognize the insertion point, then create new xml portion and append it as text and continue with copying.

Prevent transformer.transform( source, result ) from escaping special character

I'm updating node and text content of the xml using DOM parser. To save that DOM parser I'm using transformer.transform method.
Below is the sample code.
String xmlText = "<uc>abcd><name>mine</name>efgh\netg<tag>sd</tag></uc>";
DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource inStream = new InputSource();
inStream.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xmlText));
Document document = documentBuilder.parse(inStream);
Node node = document.getDocumentElement();
node.normalize();
NodeList childNodes = node.getChildNodes();
for(int i=0; i<childNodes.getLength(); i++) {
if(childNodes.item(i).getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
System.out.println(childNodes.item(i).getTextContent());
childNodes.item(i).setTextContent("123>");
}
}
TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "US-ASCII");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
DOMSource source = new DOMSource( document );
OutputStream xml = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult( xml );
transformer.transform( source, result );
String formattedXml = xml.toString();
System.out.println(formattedXml);
Since my updated document is having text content like ">", transformer.transform method is changing it to &g t;
Is there a way to get the output without escaping special characters.
I can't use other parser because of some project constraints.
I can't use StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(). The reason is xml can have &g t;. If i use this utility method, &g t; which was originally present in the xml will also get changed.
So i want a mechanism which will not escape any special character.

The transformer you create with
Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
is initialized with a default stylesheed that implements the identity transformation. That means it will simply serialize your DOM to a well-formed XML document. Output escaping is automatically applied where necessary.
If you want better control over the output, and possibly generate something that does not adhere to XML document structures, you can use a custom stylesheet that switches the output method to text. This way you control more of the structure but can do more mistakes in the XML area.
More information at
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.xml/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactory.html#newTransformer()
https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#element-output

Editing xml content in java and passing it as string, using node preferably

I've a xml document, which will be used as a template
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata"><content type="application/xml"><m:properties><d:AccountEnabled>true</d:AccountEnabled><d:DisplayName>SampleAppTestj5</d:DisplayName><d:MailNickname>saTestj5</d:MailNickname><d:Password>Qwerty1234</d:Password><d:UserPrincipalName>saTestj5#identropy.us</d:UserPrincipalName></m:properties></content></entry>
I'm calling it in java using this code where payLoadXML.xml has the above content.
"InputStream is = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/payLoadXML.xml");"
Now I'm trying to edit the tag values for example changing the from "saTestj5" to "saTestj6" and then converting this entire xml and storing it in xml. Can anyone tell me how can I achieve this? I was told this can be done by using "Node" is it possible?

Use jaxb or sax parsers convert into object by using getter method and change the object and convert back to xml
try this

DocumentBuilderFactory docFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = null;
docBuilder = docFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = null;
InputStream is = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/payLoadXML.xml");
doc = docBuilder.parse(is);
Node staff = doc.getElementsByTagName("m:properties").item(0);
Text givenNameValue = doc.createTextNode("abc");
Element givenName = doc.createElement("d:GivenName");
givenName.appendChild(givenNameValue);
staff.appendChild(givenName);
TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = null;
transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
transformer.transform(source, result);

Dynamically generating XML Schema

I am trying to dynamically generate XML schema using Xerces-J and getting the following error, appreciate any help regarding it.
DocumentBuilderFactory dbfac = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbfac.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbfac.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();
Element schema = doc.createElement("xs:schema");
schema.setAttribute("xmlns:xs", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema");
doc.appendChild(schema);
Element e = doc.createElement("xs:element");
e.setAttribute("name", "test");
e.setAttribute("type", "xs:string");
schema.appendChild(e);
TransformerFactory transfac = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer trans = transfac.newTransformer();
trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "no");
trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
//create string from xml tree
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
trans.transform(source, result);
String xmlString = sw.toString();
System.out.println(xmlString);
SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
Schema schema1 = schemaFactory.newSchema(source);
Output is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="test" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:schema>
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: s4s-elt-schema-ns: The namespace of element 'xs:schema' must be from
the schema namespace, 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'.

When building a DOM, you don't specify namespaces as attributes. Instead, use the version of createElement() that takes two parameters: the first is the namespace URI, the second is the element's qualified name.
Note also that the prefix of a qualified name will automatically be matched to the namespace URI. If you want, you could eliminate the prefix altogether, and the serializer will do the right thing (either creating an xmlns attribute without prefix, or generating a prefix).

I had the similar problem and found the Apache Commons XMLSchema

Convert JTree to XML

I've seen many many articles on how to read XML into a JTree but few on how to create the XML from the JTree. Can anyone help me with a simple approach for this? I've seen an example that looked like:
XMLEncoder e = new XMLEncoder(
new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(f.toString())));
e.writeObject(o);
e.close();
.. but I can't get this to work; it returns an XML file but its not quite right, looking like this:
<java version="1.6.0_17" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
<object class="javax.swing.JTree">
<object class="javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel">
<object class="javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode">
<void property="userObject">
.. etc, but with none of my data in there.
(PS: Please be gentle, I'm very new to java!)

The XMLEncoder is a generic utility for encoding beans as text. I don't think it is suitable in your case.
I wrote a piece of code that does the job, assuming that I understand well your needs. You only have to pass the tree model as a parameter to the toXml method. Note that this is just a draft; You will probably want to handle exceptions differently, and manage your transformation parameters differently. More important, you can manipulate the recursive createTree method in order to change the structure of the XML node created per tree node.
public static String toXml(TreeModel model) throws ParserConfigurationException, TransformerException {
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
DOMImplementation impl = builder.getDOMImplementation();
// Build an XML document from the tree model
Document doc = impl.createDocument(null,null,null);
Element root = createTree(doc, model, model.getRoot());
doc.appendChild(root);
// Transform the document into a string
DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(doc);
TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING,"UTF-8");
transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "4");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
StreamResult sr = new StreamResult(sw);
transformer.transform(domSource, sr);
return sw.toString();
}
private static Element createTree(Document doc, TreeModel model, Object node) {
Element el = doc.createElement(node.toString());
for(int i=0;i<model.getChildCount(node);i++){
Object child = model.getChild(node, i);
el.appendChild(createTree(doc,model,child));
}
return el;
}