Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; 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.Document; public class Main { public static String XMLToString(Document doc, Boolean singleLine) { TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = null; try { transformer = tf.newTransformer(); } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); try { transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(writer)); } catch (TransformerException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } String string = writer.getBuffer().toString(); if (!singleLine) { return string; } return string.replaceAll("\n|\r", ""); } public static String XMLToString(Document doc) { return XMLToString(doc, true); } }