Java XML Document to String xmlToString(Document xml)

Description

Converts a DOM Tree to a String.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
xml	The DOM document to convert.

Return

A string containing the XML if successful, null otherwise.

Declaration

public static String xmlToString(Document xml) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from   w ww. ja v  a 2  s.  c  om*/
 * Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Blake Dickie
 *
 * 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 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program 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 this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import java.io.StringWriter;

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;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Converts a DOM Tree to a String.
     *
     * @param xml The DOM document to convert.
     *
     * @return A string containing the XML if successful, null otherwise.
     */
    public static String xmlToString(Document xml) {
        try {
            TransformerFactory f = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            Transformer t = f.newTransformer();
            DOMSource src = new DOMSource(xml);
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
            t.transform(src, result);
            return writer.toString();
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

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