Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Node; 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 java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringWriter; public class Main { public static String printDocument(Node doc) throws IOException, TransformerException { TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer(); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml"); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes"); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8"); transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "2"); StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(sw)); return sw.toString(); } }