Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import org.apache.log4j.Logger; import org.w3c.dom.Document; public class Main { /** * creating logger log4j */ static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"); /** * method used to convert a xml document to a string * * @param doc * @return */ public static String convertDocumentToString(Document doc) { TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer; try { /** * transformation of document happens here */ transformer = tf.newTransformer(); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(writer)); String output = writer.getBuffer().toString(); /** * logging success */ logger.info("xml conversion to string successful Class:XMLParserUtility line# 98"); return output; } catch (TransformerException e) { e.printStackTrace(); logger.fatal("Could not transform document to XML", e); } return null; } }