[jdom-interest] rewriting a file

[Ian Lea]

The approach is fine.  Is fn the same as outfile?
Do you have permission to write to outfile?


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> brianw at knowledgextensions.com (Brian Wolf) wrote 
>
> If I want to read a fiile in, do something and put it out in the same file,
> I try this:
> 
>  try{
>      Document doc = builder.build(fn);
> 
>      // to something that changes the doc
> 
>      File outf = new File(outfile);
>      PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(outf));
>      XMLOutputter outputter = new XMLOutputter();
>      outputter.setEncoding("ISO-8859-1" );
>      outputter.output(doc, out);
>    }
>   catch (Exception ex) {
>             System.out.println(ex.getMessage());}
> 
> 
> it won't allow access to the file to write out the changed version.
> Not sure I understand why because I thought builder dissociates from
> the file after its parsed intoa jdom? Whats the right approach here?
> 
> Thanks
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
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