Android Utililty Methods XML Node to String Convert

if (xpathnode.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (Node currentSibling = xpathnode.getParentNode()
            .getFirstChild(); currentSibling != null; currentSibling = currentSibling
            .getNextSibling()) {
        if (currentSibling.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
            sb.append(((Text) currentSibling).getData());
    return sb.toString();
} else if (xpathnode.getNodeType() == Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE) {
    return ((Attr) xpathnode).getNodeValue();
} else if (xpathnode.getNodeType() == Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE) {
    return ((ProcessingInstruction) xpathnode).getNodeValue();
return null;

String name = n.getNodeName();
short type = n.getNodeType();
if (Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE == type) {
    return "<![CDATA[" + n.getNodeValue() + "]]&gt;";
if (name.length() > 0 && name.charAt(0) == '#') {
    return "";
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append('<').append(name);
NamedNodeMap attrs = n.getAttributes();
if (attrs != null) {
    for (int i = 0; i < attrs.getLength(); i++) {
        Node attr = attrs.item(i);
        sb.append(' ').append(attr.getNodeName()).append("=\"")
                .append(encodeXML(attr.getNodeValue()))
                .append('\"');
String textContent = null;
NodeList children = n.getChildNodes();
if (children.getLength() == 0) {
    if ((textContent = getTextContent(n)) != null
            && !"".equals(textContent)) {
        sb.append(encodeXML(textContent)).append("</").append(name)
                .append('>');
    } else {
        sb.append("/>").append('\n');
} else {
    sb.append('>').append('\n');
    boolean hasValidChildren = false;
    for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) {
        String childToString = elementToString(children.item(i));
        if (!"".equals(childToString)) {
            sb.append(childToString);
            hasValidChildren = true;
    if (!hasValidChildren
            && ((textContent = getTextContent(n)) != null)) {
        sb.append(encodeXML(textContent));
    sb.append("</").append(name).append('>');
return sb.toString();