Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Open Source License import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { /** * Serialized a node to a string. XML declarations will be omitted. * * @param node The node to be serialized. * * @return The serialized node. * * @throws TransformerFactoryConfigurationError * @throws TransformerException */ public static String nodeToString(Node node) throws TransformerFactoryConfigurationError, TransformerException { Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); transformer.setOutputProperty("omit-xml-declaration", "yes"); StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(sw)); return sw.toString(); } }