Thread: Java code to embedding xml tags at start and end of file

Hello John,

How about this? First, add a text file in the same directory as this application called textfile1.txt

This code will read in the file, and write it out again as textfile1_new.txt with the XML tags at the start and end of the file.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.*;
 
public class XMLTagger {
 
    public static String xmlOpen = "<xmltag>";
    public static String xmlClose = "</xmltag>";
    public static Writer output = null;
 
    public void OpenWriteFile() {
 
        String newLine = System.getProperty("line.separator");
 
        try {
            FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("textfile1.txt");
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
 
            File file = new File("textfile1_new.txt");
            output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
            output.write(xmlOpen);
            output.write(newLine);
            String strLine;
 
            while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
                // System.out.println(strLine);
                output.write(strLine);
                output.write(newLine);
            }
 
            output.write(xmlClose);
            output.write(newLine);
            output.close();
 
            System.out.println("New File Written");
 
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Ouch! " + e);
        }
 
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 
        XMLTagger xml = new XMLTagger();
        xml.OpenWriteFile();
    }
 
}

Example output:

<xmltag>
this is textfile1, an example text file
this is textfile1, an example text file
this is textfile1, an example text file
this is textfile1, an example text file
this is textfile1, an example text file
this is textfile1, an example text file
</xmltag>

Glad I could help John