public static boolean writeXML(File file, Document document) { javax.xml.transform.Transformer transformer = null; try { transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) { e.printStackTrace(); return false; } transformer.setOutputProperty("indent", "yes"); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputPropertiesFactory.S_KEY_INDENT_AMOUNT, "2"); transformer.setOutputProperty("encoding", "UTF-8"); try { transformer.transform(new DOMSource(document), new StreamResult(file)); } catch (TransformerException e) { e.printStackTrace(); return false; } return true; }