Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.*; 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.Element; public class Main { public static String elementToString(Element ele) { try { StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(); DOMSource source = new DOMSource(ele); StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw); transformer.setOutputProperty("indent", "yes"); transformer.transform(source, result); return sw.toString(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); return null; } } }