Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; 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 { private static Transformer trans; public static String xmlToString(Document xml) throws TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException { ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); Transformer transformer = getTransformer(); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8"); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(xml), new StreamResult(bos)); return bos.toString(); } public static Transformer getTransformer() throws TransformerConfigurationException { if (trans == null) { TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); trans = tFactory.newTransformer(); } return trans; } }