Classes for creating an XMLStreamWriter object

javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory
javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter
javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException

Common methods of the XMLOutputFactory class

Code that creates an XMLStreamWriter object that writes to a file

// Create the XMLOutputFactory object
XMLOutputFactory outputFactory = XMLOutputFactory.newInstance();

try
{
    // Create the XMLStreamWriter object
    FileWriter fileWriter =
        new FileWriter("products.xml");
    XMLStreamWriter writer =
        outputFactory.createXMLStreamWriter(fileWriter);

    // Write XML data here
}
catch (IOException e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (XMLStreamException e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();

Code that creates an XMLStreamWriter object that writes to the console

XMLStreamWriter writer = outputFactory.createXMLStreamWriter(System.out);