Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; 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 org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { private static String getXmlString(Document document, String tagName) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException, TransformerException { NodeList nodeList = document.getElementsByTagName(tagName); if (nodeList.getLength() < 1) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("no " + tagName + " found"); } Node sub = nodeList.item(0); DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder(); Document subdoc = db.newDocument(); subdoc.appendChild(sub.cloneNode(true)); TransformerFactory transFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = transFactory.newTransformer(); DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(subdoc); StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); StreamResult xmlResult = new StreamResult(sw); transformer.transform(domSource, xmlResult); sw.flush(); return sw.toString(); } }