Java XML Document to String writeDocument(Document doc, boolean omitXmlDeclaration)

Description

Writes a document as a string.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
doc	the document
omitXmlDeclaration	true to omit the XML declaration

Exception

Parameter	Description
Exception	an exception

Return

the written document, or null if the conversion failed

Declaration

public static String writeDocument(Document doc, boolean omitXmlDeclaration) throws Exception 

Method Source Code

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

import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;

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 {
    /**
    * Writes a document as a string.
    * @param doc the document
    * @param omitXmlDeclaration true to omit the XML declaration
    * @return the written document, or null if the conversion failed
    * @throws Exception
    */
    public static String writeDocument(Document doc, boolean omitXmlDeclaration) throws Exception {

        String result = null;
        DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(doc);
        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        StreamResult streamResult = new StreamResult(writer);

        TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.STANDALONE, "yes");
        if (omitXmlDeclaration)
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");

        transformer.transform(domSource, streamResult);
        result = writer.toString();
        return result;
    }
}

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7. writeDocumentToStreamResult(Document document, StreamResult outputTarget)
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