Java XML Element to String toString(Element e)

Description

to String

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String toString(Element e) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;

import java.io.StringWriter;

public class Main {
    public static String toString(Element e) {
        try {// w  w w .j  a  v  a2s  .c om
            TransformerFactory tfactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer xform = tfactory.newTransformer();
            Source src = new DOMSource(e);
            java.io.StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            Result result = new javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult(writer);
            xform.transform(src, result);
            return writer.toString();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            return "Unable to convert to string: " + ex.toString();
        }
    }
}

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2. getStringValueOfElement(Element elem)
3. getStringValues(Element from, String elementName)
4. getXmlString(Element node)
5. getXMLStringFromNode(Element node)
6. toString(Element element)
7. toString(Element node)
8. toString(Element xml)
9. toStringNoIndent(Element aElement)