MATLAB Function Reference

xmlwrite

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

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