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.Document; public class Main { public static String createPrintableString(Document doc) { String s = ""; try { // set up a transformer TransformerFactory transfac = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer trans = transfac.newTransformer(); trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"); trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes"); // create string from xml tree StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw); DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc); trans.transform(source, result); s = sw.toString(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return s; } }