Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import org.w3c.dom.Document; public class Main { public static String newStringFromDocument(Document doc) throws TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException { TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer(); transformer.setOutputProperty("omit-xml-declaration", "yes"); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(writer)); String output = writer.getBuffer().toString().replaceAll("\n|\r", ""); return output; } }