JAVA DOM API Processing inscrution and doctype before XML prolog

Question

I am working on DOM API in JAVA, i have a problem, how may i add Precessing Instruction (XSLT Style Sheet) and DOCTYPE (Document type) after XML Prolog
each one in new line please?

eg :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE FICHES SYSTEM "docform.dtd">
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="stylesheet.xsl"?>

Answer 1

You need to create the DOCTYPE when creating the document, see http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-102161490 which defines a method createDocumentType on the implementation to create a DOCTYPE and a method createDocument to create a document taking the DOCTYPE as one parameter.

Thus you need

DocumentType docType = implementation.createDocumentType("FICHES", null, "docform.dtd");
Document doc = implementation.createDocument(null, "FICHES", docType);

That way you now have a DOM document doc with a DOCTYPE node and a root element named FICHES , then you can create and insert the processing instruction:

doc.insertBefore(doc.createProcessingInstruction("xml-stylesheet", "type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"stylesheet.xsl\""), doc.getDocumentElement());