import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Comment;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.newDocument();
Element element = doc.createElement("root");
doc.appendChild(element);
Comment comment = doc.createComment("This is a comment");
doc.insertBefore(comment, element);
Element itemElement = doc.createElement("item");
element.appendChild(itemElement);
itemElement.setAttribute("myattr", "attr>value");
itemElement.insertBefore(doc.createTextNode("te<xt"),
itemElement.getLastChild());
prettyPrint(doc);
}
public static final void prettyPrint(Document xml) throws Exception {
Transformer tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
tf.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");
tf.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
Writer out = new StringWriter();
tf.transform(new DOMSource(xml), new StreamResult(out));
System.out.println(out.toString());
}
}