Deleting records from XML file--just a little problem
Hi!
My xml file has a simple form like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AdressBook>
<Name>Suzy</Name>
<Lastname>Love</Lastname>
<Adress>You street 22</Adress>
<Phone>911</Phone>
<Email>loveme@gmail.com</Email>
</Record>
<Record>
<Name>Judy</Name>
<Lastname>Goblin</Lastname>
<Adress>Milkyway</Adress>
<Phone>911</Phone>
<Email>goblin_judy@gmail.com</Email>
</Record>
...
...
</AdressBook>
Now, whenever I delete a record from that file it leaves a remaining tag <Record /> on the loction were previous record was. How do I delete that remaining tag or better yet, how do I delete Record element in whole. I am using jdom.
Here is the code I use to delete records:
publicvoid deleteRecordFromFile(Record r)
{
Element root=doc.getRootElement();
List records=root.getChildren();
Iterator listIt=records.iterator();
while(listIt.hasNext())
{
Element rec=(Element)listIt.next();
Record p=new Record("","","","","");
List recChildren=rec.getChildren();
Element e=null;
for(int i=0;i<recChildren.size();i++)
{
e=(Element)recChildren.get(i);
switch (i)
{
case 0: p.setName(e.getText());break;
case 1: p.setLastName(e.getText());break;
case 2: p.setAddress(e.getText());break;
case 3: p.setPhone(e.getText());break;
case 4: p.setEmail(e.getText());break;
default: ;
}
}
if(p.equals(r))
{
rec.removeContent();
System.out.println("Record deleted!");
}
}
writeToFile(filename);
}
Like you see above I use the method removeContent(), should I use some other method? I need to get rid of that remaining tags in order to make my editing of the records stored in there easier. I guess I could make a seperate routine that would clean my file of those tags, but I think that is just too much time consuming...or not?
Please help me out here.:)
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