Java XML Document to String DocumentToString(Document dom)

Description

Parses org.w3c.dom.Document and returns its xml serialization as String

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
dom	a parameter

Declaration

public static String DocumentToString(Document dom) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//from   w  w  w. ja  v  a  2 s .com
 * XMLUtils.java
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 2008 www.integratedmodelling.org
 * Created: Jan 21, 2008
 *
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * This file is part of ThinklabPersistencePlugin.
 * 
 * ThinklabPersistencePlugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * ThinklabPersistencePlugin 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.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with the software; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
 * 
 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * 
 * @copyright 2008 www.integratedmodelling.org
 * @author    Ioannis N. Athanasiadis (ioannis@athanasiadis.info)
 * @date      Jan 21, 2008
 * @license   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt GNU General Public License v3
 * @link      http://www.integratedmodelling.org
 **/

import java.io.StringWriter;

import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Parses {@code org.w3c.dom.Document} and returns its xml serialization as {@code String}
     * @param dom
     * @return
     */
    public static String DocumentToString(Document dom) {
        String xmlString = null;
        try {
            Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");

            //         initialize StreamResult with File object to save to file
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new StringWriter());
            DOMSource source = new DOMSource(dom);
            transformer.transform(source, result);

            xmlString = result.getWriter().toString();

        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (TransformerFactoryConfigurationError e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return xmlString;
    }
}

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