Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.ls.DOMImplementationLS; import org.w3c.dom.ls.LSSerializer; import javax.xml.transform.*; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource; import java.io.*; public class Main { public static String XMLtoString(Node node) throws Exception { Document document = node.getOwnerDocument(); DOMImplementationLS domImplLS = (DOMImplementationLS) document.getImplementation(); LSSerializer serializer = domImplLS.createLSSerializer(); serializer.getDomConfig().setParameter("xml-declaration", false); return serializer.writeToString(node); } public static String XMLtoString(Document doc) throws Exception { try { TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer; transformer = tf.newTransformer(); // below code to remove XML declaration // transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(writer)); return writer.getBuffer().toString(); } catch (TransformerException te) { throw new Exception(te.getMessageAndLocation()); } } public static String transform(String xmlString, String stylesheetPathname) throws Exception { try { TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Source stylesheetSource = new StreamSource(new File(stylesheetPathname).getAbsoluteFile()); Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(stylesheetSource); Source inputSource = new StreamSource(new StringReader(xmlString)); Writer outputWriter = new StringWriter(); Result outputResult = new StreamResult(outputWriter); transformer.transform(inputSource, outputResult); return outputWriter.toString(); } catch (TransformerConfigurationException tce) { throw new Exception(tce.getMessageAndLocation()); } catch (TransformerException te) { throw new Exception(te.getMessageAndLocation()); } } }