Java XML Document to String documentToString(Document document)

Description

Uses a TransformerFactory with an identity transformation to convert a Document into a String representation of the XML.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
document	Document.

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	if an error occurs during transformation.

Return

An XML String.

Declaration

public static String documentToString(Document document) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
import java.io.IOException;

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.Document;

public class Main {
    public static String INDENT_XML = "no";
    public static String OMIT_XML_DECLARATION = "yes";

    /**/*from www. j  av a2  s. co  m*/
     * Uses a TransformerFactory with an identity transformation to convert a
     * Document into a String representation of the XML.
     *
     * @param document Document.
     * @return An XML String.
     * @throws IOException if an error occurs during transformation.
     */
    public static String documentToString(Document document) throws IOException {
        String xml = null;

        try {
            DOMSource dom = new DOMSource(document);
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            StreamResult output = new StreamResult(writer);

            // Use Transformer to serialize a DOM
            TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();

            // No need for pretty printing
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, INDENT_XML);

            // XML Declarations unexpected whitespace for legacy AS XMLDocument type,
            // so we always omit it. We can't tell whether one was present when
            // constructing the Document in the first place anyway...
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, OMIT_XML_DECLARATION);

            transformer.transform(dom, output);

            xml = writer.toString();
        } catch (TransformerException te) {
            throw new IOException("Error serializing Document as String: " + te.getMessageAndLocation());
        }
        return xml;
    }
}

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