How to write to an existing XML file using java

Question

I've got an xml file looked like this. employees.xml

<Employees>
    <Employee>
        <FirstName>myFirstName</FirstName>
        <LastName>myLastName</LastName>
        <Salary>10000</Salary>
    <Employee>
</Employees>

Now how do I add new Employee elements to the existing XML file?.. An example code is highly appreciated.

Answer 1

You can't 'write nodes to an existing XML file.' You can read an existing XML file into memory, add to the data model, and then write a new file. You can rename the old file and write the new file under the old name. But there is no commonly-used Java utility that will modify an XML file in place.