After deleting xml nodes in java ,xml file doesnt get update

mrboomgq

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I am using following code to remove some specific nodes from xml file..It show correct output on consolebut somehow xml file is not getting updated..the contents remains as it is..please help..Thanks...\[code\]package com.sumit.xml.client;import java.io.*;import org.apache.xml.serialize.OutputFormat;import org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer;import org.w3c.dom.*;import org.xml.sax.*;import javax.xml.parsers.*;import javax.xml.transform.*; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;public class ReadCDATA { static public void main(String[] arg) { try{ BufferedReader bf = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); System.out.print("Enter a XML file name: "); String xmlFile = bf.readLine(); File file = new File(xmlFile); System.out.print("Enter an element which have to delete: "); String remElement = bf.readLine(); if (file.exists()){ DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.parse(xmlFile); TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer tFormer = tFactory.newTransformer(); Element element = (Element)doc.getElementsByTagName(remElement).item(0);// Remove the node element.getParentNode().removeChild(element);// Normalize the DOM tree to combine all adjacent nodes doc.normalize(); Source source = new DOMSource(doc); Result dest = new StreamResult(System.out); tFormer.transform(source, dest); System.out.println(); } else{ System.out.println("File not found!"); } } catch (Exception e){ System.err.println(e); System.exit(0); } }} \[/code\]
 
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