Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { public static String toString(Node doc) throws Exception { DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(doc); StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new StringWriter()); TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer serializer = tf.newTransformer(); serializer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8"); //serializer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.DOCTYPE_SYSTEM,"users.dtd"); serializer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes"); serializer.transform(domSource, result); return result.getWriter().toString(); } }