Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { /** The standard auto-generated XML header */ public static final String XML_HEADER = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"; /** * Renders an XML node to a string * @param node The xml node to render * @param stripHeader If true, strips the auto-generated XML header from the generated string * @return the rendered string or null if it failed conversion */ public static String renderNode(final Node node, final boolean stripHeader) { if (node == null) return null; try { StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(writer)); final String s = writer.toString(); if (stripHeader) { return s.replace(XML_HEADER, ""); } return s; } catch (Throwable e) { return null; } } /** * Renders an XML node to a string * @param node The xml node to render * @return the rendered string or null if it failed conversion */ public static String renderNode(final Node node) { return renderNode(node, false); } }