Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * The MIT License * Copyright (c) 2014 Gregory Boissinot and all contributors * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN * THE SOFTWARE. */ import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class Main { public static String readXmlAsString(final File input) throws IOException { String xmlString = ""; if (input == null) { throw new IOException("The input stream object is null."); } final FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(input); final InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(fileInputStream); final BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader); String line = bufferedReader.readLine(); while (line != null) { xmlString += line + "\n"; line = bufferedReader.readLine(); } fileInputStream.close(); fileInputStream.close(); bufferedReader.close(); return xmlString; } }