Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.Result; import javax.xml.transform.Source; 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.Node; public class Main { public static String getXMLString(Node doc) throws TransformerException, TransformerConfigurationException { TransformerFactory tranFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer aTransformer = tranFactory.newTransformer(); StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); Source src = new DOMSource(doc); Result dest = new StreamResult(sw); aTransformer.transform(src, dest); return sw.toString(); } }