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/*
 * Copyright 2008 National Library of Sweden 
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 
 * 
 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
 *  
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 
 * distributed  under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package se.kb.xml;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;

import org.dom4j.Element;
import org.dom4j.io.OutputFormat;
import org.dom4j.io.XMLWriter;

/**
 * Utility class that has some static helper methods for handling XML.
 * 
 * @author Oskar Grenholm, National Library of Sweden
 */
public class XMLUtils {

    public static final String ENCODING = "UTF-8";

    /* No need for a constructor. */
    private XMLUtils() {
    }

    /**
     * Writes the XML contained in the <code>Element</code> to the specified
     * <code>OutputStream</code>.
     * 
     * @param element the XML element to write
     * @param stream the stream to write to
     * 
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void writeXmlTo(Element element, OutputStream stream) throws IOException {
        OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(stream, ENCODING);
        OutputFormat format = OutputFormat.createPrettyPrint();
        format.setEncoding(ENCODING);

        XMLWriter xmlwriter = new XMLWriter(writer, format);
        xmlwriter.write(element);
        xmlwriter.flush();
        writer.flush();
    }

    /**
     * Converts an <code>Element</code> to a <code>String</code>. 
     * 
     * @param xml the XML element to write
     * 
     * @return a <code>String</code> with the XML
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static String xmlToString(Element xml) throws IOException {
        ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        writeXmlTo(xml, stream);
        return stream.toString(ENCODING);
    }
}