Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.PrintWriter; 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.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import org.w3c.dom.Document; public class Main { public static String toString(Document doc) throws TransformerException { OutputStream result = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); transfer(doc, result); return result.toString(); } public static void transfer(Document doc, OutputStream result) throws TransformerFactoryConfigurationError, TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException { transfer(doc, new StreamResult(result)); } public static void transfer(Document doc, PrintWriter pw) throws TransformerException { transfer(doc, new StreamResult(pw)); } private static void transfer(Document doc, Result streamResult) throws TransformerFactoryConfigurationError, TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException { Source source = new DOMSource(doc); TransformerFactory xformFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer idTransform = xformFactory.newTransformer(); idTransform.transform(source, streamResult); } }