Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I am creating a XML document using JAXB. When it comes out of the marshalling process, the document is formatted correctly. Since JAXB does not support CDATA, but my XML file consumer requires it, I have to use XMLSerializer.

The xml coming out of the XMLSerializer is fine and all of the fields that require CDATA tags have them, but the entire body of the xml document is on one line.

e.g.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<aile_extract gendate="2007-08-15" version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.gyrpon.net/AIE"><ACourseCatalog><acc_record><id>3003</id><parentid><![CDATA[3]]>parentid><code>15</code>...

I have tried fixing it by setting the OutputFormat attributes. Other than writing my own parser, I don't see how it is done.

Here is my code:

    
public static void addCDATA(String inputFileName, String outputFileName) throws BaerException{        
        try {
            // unmarshal a doc
            File f = new File(inputFileName);
            
            JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance("ile.baer.jaxb.courseCatalog");
            Unmarshaller u = jc.createUnmarshaller();
            Object o = u.unmarshal(f);
    
            // create a JAXB marshaller
            Marshaller m = jc.createMarshaller();
    
            m.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, 
                                   Boolean.TRUE);
            // get an Apache XMLSerializer configured to generate CDATA
            XMLSerializer serializer = getXMLSerializer(outputFileName);
    
            // marshal using the Apache XMLSerializer
            m.marshal(o, serializer.asContentHandler());

        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            throw new BaerException(e);
        }
        catch (JAXBException e) {
            throw new BaerException(e);
        }
    }


    private static XMLSerializer getXMLSerializer(String fileName) throws BaerException {
        // configure an OutputFormat to handle CDATA
        OutputFormat of = new OutputFormat();
    
        // specify which of your elements you want to be handled as CDATA.
        // The use of the '^' between the namespaceURI and the localname
        // seems to be an implementation detail of the xerces code.
        // When processing xml that doesn't use namespaces, simply omit the
        // namespace prefix as shown in the third CDataElement below.
        
        String[] sa = {"http://www.gyrpon.net/AIE^parentid",
                        "http://www.gyrpon.net/AIE^rawprogress",
                        "http://www.gyrpon.net/AIE^completiondate",
                        "http://www.gyrpon.net/AIE^timein"};
                        
        of.setCDataElements(sa);   
//        of.setNonEscapingElements(sa);                    
//        // set any other options you'd like
//        of.setPreserveSpace(true);
//        of.setIndenting(true);
//        of.setIndent(4);


    
        // create the serializer
        XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer(of);
    //        serializer.setOutputByteStream(System.out);
    
        
    
     try {
            File f1 = new File(fileName);
            FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(f1);
  
            serializer.setOutputCharStream(fw);
    
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            throw new BaerException(e);
        }
        return serializer;
    }

}

As you can see in the commented-out code above, I tried setting some of the attributes of OutputFormat with no result. No matter what I do, the xml file is output on (technically) 2 lines.

How do I get this thing to come out readable?

Thanks,
Keith