Here you can find the source of serialize(Document document, boolean prettyPrint)
public static String serialize(Document document, boolean prettyPrint)
//package com.java2s; /**/*from ww w. j a v a 2 s . c om*/ The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 (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.mozilla.org/MPL/ Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License. The Original Code is "XMLUtils.java". Description: "XML utilities" The Initial Developer of the Original Code is University Health Network. Copyright (C) 2001. All Rights Reserved. Contributor(s): ______________________________________. Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License (the "GPL"), in which case the provisions of the GPL are applicable instead of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only under the terms of the GPL and not to allow others to use your version of this file under the MPL, indicate your decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice and other provisions required by the GPL License. If you do not delete the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under either the MPL or the GPL. */ import java.io.StringWriter; import java.io.Writer; import org.w3c.dom.DOMConfiguration; import org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.bootstrap.DOMImplementationRegistry; import org.w3c.dom.ls.DOMImplementationLS; import org.w3c.dom.ls.LSOutput; import org.w3c.dom.ls.LSSerializer; public class Main { private static DOMImplementation IMPL; public static String serialize(Document document, boolean prettyPrint) { Writer writer = new StringWriter(); serialize(document, prettyPrint, writer); return writer.toString(); } public static void serialize(Document document, boolean prettyPrint, Writer theWriter) { DOMImplementationLS impl = getDOMImpl(); LSSerializer serializer = impl.createLSSerializer(); // document.normalizeDocument(); DOMConfiguration config = serializer.getDomConfig(); if (prettyPrint && config.canSetParameter("format-pretty-print", Boolean.TRUE)) { config.setParameter("format-pretty-print", true); } config.setParameter("xml-declaration", true); LSOutput output = impl.createLSOutput(); output.setEncoding("UTF-8"); output.setCharacterStream(theWriter); serializer.write(document, output); } @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public synchronized static <T> T getDOMImpl() { if (IMPL == null) { try { DOMImplementationRegistry registry = DOMImplementationRegistry.newInstance(); IMPL = registry.getDOMImplementation("LS 3.0"); } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } return (T) IMPL; } }