--- a/flys-aft/src/main/java/de/intevation/utils/XML.java	Thu Jan 05 18:58:49 2012 +0000
+++ b/flys-aft/src/main/java/de/intevation/utils/XML.java	Fri Jan 06 12:10:40 2012 +0000
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
 
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 
@@ -30,7 +32,9 @@
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError;
 
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
 
 import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
@@ -72,6 +76,24 @@
     private XML() {
     }
 
+        /**
+     * Creates a new XML document
+     * @return the new XML document ot null if something went wrong during
+     * creation.
+     */
+    public static final Document newDocument() {
+        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
+
+        try {
+            return factory.newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
+        }
+        catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
+            log.error(pce.getLocalizedMessage(), pce);
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Loads a XML document namespace aware from a file
      * @param file The file to load.
@@ -254,5 +276,57 @@
 
         return null;
     }
+
+   /**
+     * Streams out an XML document to a given output stream.
+     * @param document The document to be streamed out.
+     * @param out      The output stream to be used.
+     * @return true if operation succeeded else false.
+     */
+    public static boolean toStream(Document document, OutputStream out) {
+        try {
+            Transformer transformer =
+                TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
+            DOMSource    source = new DOMSource(document);
+            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(out);
+            transformer.transform(source, result);
+            return true;
+        }
+        catch (TransformerConfigurationException tce) {
+            log.error(tce.getLocalizedMessage(), tce);
+        }
+        catch (TransformerFactoryConfigurationError tfce) {
+            log.error(tfce.getLocalizedMessage(), tfce);
+        }
+        catch (TransformerException te) {
+            log.error(te.getLocalizedMessage(), te);
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    public static String toString(Document document) {
+        try {
+            Transformer transformer =
+                TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
+            DOMSource    source = new DOMSource(document);
+            StringWriter out    = new StringWriter();
+            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(out);
+            transformer.transform(source, result);
+            out.flush();
+            return out.toString();
+        }
+        catch (TransformerConfigurationException tce) {
+            log.error(tce.getLocalizedMessage(), tce);
+        }
+        catch (TransformerFactoryConfigurationError tfce) {
+            log.error(tfce.getLocalizedMessage(), tfce);
+        }
+        catch (TransformerException te) {
+            log.error(te.getLocalizedMessage(), te);
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
 }
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