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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I am somewhat new to Jdom and have the following Question sorry if it's a basic one. I'm using Xpath to extract a repeating group of elements from an XML document and storing them in a List. ( This work's great )</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">What would be the best way to add a root element to the List so that I can write out a valid XML document to the file system? Any help would be much appreciated.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Andrew</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> try{</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> String filename = "C:/SearchGeo/XML/test.xml";</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> String teststring = "ALKALINITY";</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Document doc = builder.build(new File(filename));</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> XPath dataPath = XPath.newInstance("/Searchresult/metadata[descendant::enttypl='"+teststring+"']");</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> dataPath.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> List results = dataPath.selectNodes(doc);</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> /* Add root element */</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> System.out.println("Results Found "+ results.size() +" metadata record");</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> XMLOutputter Xout = new XMLOutputter();</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Xout.setEncoding("ISO-8859-1");</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Xout.output(results ,System.out);</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> }</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> catch(JDOMException E){E.printStackTrace();}</FONT>
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