Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.IOException; 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 constructXMLString(Document dom) throws IOException { String retXMLStr = null; TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer; try { transformer = factory.newTransformer(); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer); DOMSource source = new DOMSource(dom); transformer.transform(source, result); writer.close(); retXMLStr = writer.toString(); } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (TransformerException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } /* // Make a string out of the DOM object System.out.println(dom.toString()); OutputFormat format = new OutputFormat(dom); format.setIndenting(true); ByteArrayOutputStream byteoutStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer(byteoutStream, format); serializer.serialize(dom); String retXMLStr = new String(byteoutStream.toByteArray()); byteoutStream.close(); */ return retXMLStr; } }