Question

I tried to create file for test with 10 000 000 nodes like:

    DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory
            .newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory
            .newDocumentBuilder();
    Document document = documentBuilder.newDocument();
    Element rootElement = document.createElement("root");
    document.appendChild(rootElement);
    for (int i = 1; i <= 10000000; i++) {
        Element em = document.createElement("ch");
        em.appendChild(document.createTextNode("ch_data"));
        rootElement.appendChild(em);
    }
    TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory
            .newInstance();
    Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
    DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document);
    StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new File("c:/file1.xml"));
    transformer.transform(source, result);

But received error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at   com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.
createElement(CoreDocumentImpl.java:620)
    at main.CreatXMLFile.main(CreatXMLFile.java:27)

Does there exist another library for create XML files with more than 10 000 000 nodes in Java?

Answer 1

For trivial files like that: consider writing the xml file without using any DOM or StAX:

writeToFile("<root>\n");
for (int i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
  writeToFile("<ch>" + getData(i) + "</ch>\n");
}
writeToFile("</root>\n");

That’s all – you just need a method that writes a String to a file. And a method to get your textual data.