Groovy and XML: Not able to insert processing instruction
- by rhellem
Scenario
Need to update some attributes in an existing XML-file. The file contains a XSL processing instruction, so when the XML is parsed and updated I need to add the instruction before writing it to a file again. Problem is - whatever I do - I'm not able to insert the processing instruction
Based on the Java-example found at rgagnon.com I have created the code below
Example code ##
import groovy.xml.*
def xml = '''|<something>
| <Settings>
| </Settings>
|</something>'''.stripMargin()
def document = DOMBuilder.parse( new StringReader( xml ) )
def pi = document.createProcessingInstruction('xml-stylesheet', 'type="text/xsl" href="Bp8DefaultView.xsl"');
document.insertBefore(pi, document.documentElement)
println document.documentElement
Creates output
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<something>
<Settings>
</Settings>
</something>
What I want
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Bp8DefaultView.xsl"?>
<something>
<Settings>
</Settings>
</something>
