Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; 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 convertXMLFileToString(String fileName) { try { DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); InputStream inputStream = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(fileName); Document doc = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(inputStream); StringWriter stw = new StringWriter(); Transformer serializer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); serializer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(stw)); return stw.toString(); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("Unable to load xml file: " + e.toString()); } return null; } }