Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; 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.Document; public class Main { /** * Serialize an XML document into a String (for debug purpose only!). the * returned String could contains an error message instead if a problem as * occurred during the serialization. This method is intended for debug / * trace purpose because you really don't need to serialize XML at all in * your code unless your planing to output it to a file. In this case, use * {@link XmlHelper#writeXmlToFile(Document, File)} instead. */ public static String dumpXml(Document document) { TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); try { Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"); StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(document), new StreamResult(writer)); return writer.getBuffer().toString(); } catch (TransformerException e) { return "XML dump failed: " + e.getMessage(); } } }