Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; import javax.xml.transform.Source; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException; import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource; import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXTransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static String prettyPrintXML(String xml, int indentAmount) throws TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException { Transformer serializer = SAXTransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); serializer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes"); serializer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", String.valueOf(indentAmount)); Source xmlSource = new SAXSource(new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes()))); StreamResult res = new StreamResult(new ByteArrayOutputStream()); serializer.transform(xmlSource, res); return new String(((ByteArrayOutputStream) res.getOutputStream()).toByteArray()); } }