Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.StringWriter; 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.Node; public class Main { public static String nodeToString(Node node) throws TransformerException { StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(writer)); return writer.toString().replaceAll("\\<\\?xml(.+?)\\?\\>", "").trim(); } }