private void writeElement(DicomObject attrs, DicomElement a) throws SAXException, IOException { VR vr = a.vr(); final int tag = a.tag(); if (file != null) file = new File(file, StringUtils.intToHex(tag)); String fpath = fpath(tag, vr, a.length()); startAttributeElement(tag, vr, a.length(), fpath, attrs); if (a.hasItems()) { for (int i = 0, n = a.countItems(); i < n; ++i) { writeItem(a, i); } } else { if (fpath != null) { writeToFile(a.getBytes()); } else { vr.formatXMLValue(a.getBytes(), a.bigEndian(), attrs.getSpecificCharacterSet(), cbuf, ch); } } endAttributeElement(); if (file != null) file = file.getParentFile(); }