Re: XMLDocument.save("localfile.xml") <possible solutions>

Christian Biesinger wrote:
> Lucky wrote:
>>   if (!localFile.exists()) 
>> localFile.create(localFile.NORMAL_FILE_TYPE, 0644);
> 
> This is not needed as you pass PR_CREATE_FILE (0x08) to init.
> 
>>   outputStream.init(localFile, 0x04 | 0x08 | 0x20, 0644, 0);
> 
> not sure why this uses PR_RDWR (0x04) rather than PR_WRONLY (0x02)...
> 
> As for the second variant:
> 
>>   (new XMLSerializer).serializeToStream(this, os, charset);
> 
> This doesn't work, does it? The converter output stream is not an 
> nsIOutputStream...
both seem to produce a valid file, but will test further.
i just pieced together some examples, so i'm trying to find the 
BEST/SIMPLEST code that will achieve the results needed :)

by all means, unnecessary steps should be eliminated.