Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import java.io.StringWriter; public class Main { public static String xmlToString(Document doc) { try { TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer(); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(writer)); String output = writer.getBuffer().toString().replaceAll("\n|\r", ""); return output; } catch (TransformerException exc) { throw new RuntimeException("Unable to convert XML to String"); } } }