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import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public class Main {

  public static void ElementToStream(Element element, OutputStream out) {
    try {
      DOMSource source = new DOMSource(element);
      StreamResult result = new StreamResult(out);
      TransformerFactory transFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
      Transformer transformer = transFactory.newTransformer();
      transformer.transform(source, result);
    } catch (Exception ex) {
    }
  }

  public static String DocumentToString(Document doc) {
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    ElementToStream(doc.getDocumentElement(), baos);
    return new String(baos.toByteArray());
  }

}