Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Document; 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 java.io.StringWriter; public class Main { public static String docToString(Document doc) { try { DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(doc); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer); TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer(); transformer.transform(domSource, result); return writer.toString(); } catch (TransformerException ex) { throw new RuntimeException(ex); } } }