Question

Properties class has very nice methods storeToXml and loadFromXml. But store adds header, so xml looks like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">
 <properties>
  <entry key="key">value</entry>
 </properties>

I don’t want to have this header, because i store it in database to make it xpath serchable. And also i want to load in to Properties object. Have anyone good ideas? Thanks

Answer 1

Neither XPath nor Properties.loadFromXml() care for the header. So this should work as it is.

If it’s really a problem, then write the result to a StringWriter or ByteArrayOutputStream and remove anything before <properties>. But that might actually cause errors loading the XML since the doctype is now missing.