Java XML Document to String getStringFromDOM(Document doc)

Description

Returns an XML string given a DOM document.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
doc	a parameter

Exception

Parameter	Description
Exception	an exception

Declaration

private static String getStringFromDOM(Document doc) throws Exception 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   ww  w  .  j  a  va  2  s.  c om*/
 * Title        :  AlchemiXmlUtil.java
 * Package      :  org.gridbus.alchemi.client.util
 * Project      :  AlchemiJavaAPI
 * Description   :  
 * Created on   :  4/08/2005
 * Author      :  Krishna Nadiminti (kna@cs.mu.oz.au)
 * Copyright    :  (c) 2005, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, 
 *                   Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
 *                   University of Melbourne, Australia.
 * 
 * This program 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 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later  version.
 * See the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)for more details.
 * 
 */

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
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 {
    /**
     * Returns an XML string given a DOM document.
     * @param doc
     * @return
     * @throws Exception
     */
    private static String getStringFromDOM(Document doc) throws Exception {
        //get the XML from the DOM
        TransformerFactory transFac = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = transFac.newTransformer();
        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
        ByteArrayOutputStream bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(bout);
        transformer.transform(source, result);

        String xml = new String(bout.toByteArray());
        bout.close();
        bout = null;
        return xml;
    }
}

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