Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.Source; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; public class Main { public static String transformToString(Source source) { try { Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new StringWriter()); transformer.transform(source, result); return result.getWriter().toString(); } catch (TransformerException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); return null; } } }