I am attempting to output the contents of a DOM Tree in XML format to System.out using the SVGGraphics2D class. Essentially, I want to be able to see what tags I am creating as I perform calls to appendChild(), but when I execute the code below, I don't see "Hello World" or <text> as I expect to see. Are the calls to appendChild() supposed to change the Document object named doc so the changes will be reflected in the streamed out SVG?
String svgNS = SVGDOMImplementation.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI; DOMImplementation impl = SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation(); Document doc = impl.createDocument(svgNS, "svg", null); Element svgRoot = doc.getDocumentElement(); Element e = doc.createElement("text"); svgRoot.appendChild(e); Text t = doc.createTextNode("Hello World"); svgRoot.appendChild(t); // Create an instance of the SVG Generator. SVGGraphics2D svgGenerator = new SVGGraphics2D(doc); try{ // Finally, stream out SVG to the standard output using // UTF-8 encoding. boolean useCSS = true; // we want to use CSS style attributes Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out, "UTF-8"); svgGenerator.stream(out, useCSS); } catch(Exception exc) { System.out.println(exc+""); } This is the OUTPUT I get: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd'> <svg style="stroke-dasharray:none; shape-rendering:auto; font-family:'Dialog'; text-rendering:auto; fill-opacity:1; color-interpolation:auto; color-rendering:auto; font-size:12; fill:black; stroke:black; image-rendering:auto; stroke-miterlimit:10; stroke-linecap:square; stroke-linejoin:miter; font-style:normal; stroke-width:1; stroke-dashoffset:0; font-weight:normal; stroke-opacity:1;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" contentScriptType="text/ecmascript" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" xmlns:xlink=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" zoomAndPan="magnify" version="1.0" contentStyleType="text/css" ><!--Generated by the Batik Graphics2D SVG Generator--><defs id="genericDefs"/><g/></svg> Thanks. Alan