Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; 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 { /** * Creates a string representation of a {@link Node} instance. This method * does not introduce any character to the string representation of the * {@link Node} (eg. \n or \r characters) * * @param node A {@link Node} instance * @return A string representation of the node instance * @throws RequestSecurityTokenException */ public static String xmlToString(Node node) throws Exception { try { Source source = new DOMSource(node); StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(); Result result = new StreamResult(stringWriter); TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"); transformer.transform(source, result); return stringWriter.getBuffer().toString(); } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) { e.printStackTrace(); throw new Exception("Cannot build a string representation of the assertion."); } catch (TransformerException e) { e.printStackTrace(); throw new Exception("Cannot build a string representation of the assertion."); } } }