Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Copyright (C) 2012-2017 52North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source * Software GmbH * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under * the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free * Software Foundation. * * If the program is linked with libraries which are licensed under one of the * following licenses, the combination of the program with the linked library is * not considered a "derivative work" of the program: * * - Apache License, version 2.0 * - Apache Software License, version 1.0 * - GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 * - Mozilla Public License, versions 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 * - Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), version 1.0 * * Therefore the distribution of the program linked with libraries licensed under * the aforementioned licenses, is permitted by the copyright holders if the * distribution is compliant with both the GNU General Public License version 2 * and the aforementioned licenses. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY * WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A * PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. */ import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; 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.Node; public class Main { /** * Transform this {@link Node} into a {@link String} representation. * * @param xml * the xml Node * @return a String representation of the given xml Node */ public static String toString(Node xml) { short type = xml.getNodeType(); if (type == Node.TEXT_NODE) return xml.getNodeValue(); StringWriter buffer = new StringWriter(); try { TransformerFactory transFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = transFactory.newTransformer(); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "utf-8"); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"); transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes"); transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "4"); transformer.transform(new DOMSource(xml), new StreamResult(buffer)); } catch (IllegalArgumentException | TransformerException e) { //throw new XMLHandlingException("Cannot create String from Node '" + xml + "'."); return ""; } return buffer.toString(); } }