Java XML Document to String documentToString(Document doc)

Description

Converts a DOM Document into a string.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
doc	the DOM document to convert

Exception

Parameter	Description
TransformerException	if conversion fails

Return

the XML document as a string

Declaration

public static String documentToString(Document doc) throws TransformerException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//  w  w w.ja  va  2s .  co  m
 * Copyright 2011 Matthias Nuessler <m.nuessler@web.de>
 *
 * 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.
 */

import java.io.StringWriter;

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.Document;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Converts a DOM {@link Document} into a string.
     *
     * @param doc
     *            the DOM document to convert
     * @return the XML document as a string
     * @throws TransformerException
     *             if conversion fails
     */
    public static String documentToString(Document doc) throws TransformerException {
        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
        TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        factory.newTransformer().transform(source, result);
        return writer.toString();
    }
}

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