Java XML Document to String XMLToString(Document XMLDocument)

Description

Converts DOM document to a string

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
XMLDocument	the document you want to convert

Return

String representation of you XML document

Declaration

public static String XMLToString(Document XMLDocument) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from  w  w w .ja  va2s  .c  o  m*/
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import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Converts DOM document to a string
     *
     * @param XMLDocument the document you want to convert
     * @return  String representation of you XML document
     */
    public static String XMLToString(Document XMLDocument) {
        String xmlString = null;
        try {
            // Convert DOM to XML string
            StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);
            Transformer trans = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            //trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
            trans.transform(new DOMSource(XMLDocument), result);
            xmlString = sw.toString();
            sw.close();
        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException tcex) {

        } catch (TransformerException tex) {

        } catch (IOException iex) {

        }
        return xmlString;
    }
}

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