xmlwrite (MATLAB Functions)

Serialize XML Document Object Model node

Syntax

xmlwrite(filename, DOMnode)
str = xmlwrite(DOMnode)

Description

xmlwrite(filename, DOMnode) serializes the Document Object Model node DOMnode to the file specified by filename.

str = xmlwrite(DOMnode) serializes the Document Object Model node DOMnode and returns the node tree as a string, s.

Remarks

Find out more about the Document Object Model at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web site, http://www.w3.org/DOM/. For specific information on using Java DOM objects, visit the Sun Web site, http://www.java.sun.com/xml/docs/api.

Example

% Create a sample XML document.
docNode = com.mathworks.xml.XMLUtils.createDocument...
    ('root_element')
docRootNode = docNode.getDocumentElement;
for i=1:20
    thisElement = docNode.createElement('child_node');
    thisElement.appendChild...
        (docNode.createTextNode(sprintf('%i',i)));
    docRootNode.appendChild(thisElement);
end
docNode.appendChild(docNode.createComment('this is a comment'));

% Save the sample XML document.
xmlFileName = [tempname,'.xml'];
xmlwrite(xmlFileName,docNode);
edit(xmlFileName);

See Also

xmlread, xslt

xmlread xor