StAX XML formatting in Java

Question

Is it possible using StAX (specifically woodstox) to format the output xml with newlines and tabs, i.e. in the form:

 <element1>   <element2>    someData   </element2> </element1> 

instead of:

<element1><element2>someData</element2></element1>

If this is not possible in woodstox, is there any other lightweight libs that can do this?

Answer 1

There is com.sun.xml.txw2.output.IndentingXMLStreamWriter

XMLOutputFactory xmlof = XMLOutputFactory.newInstance(); XMLStreamWriter writer = new IndentingXMLStreamWriter(xmlof.createXMLStreamWriter(out));