Java XML Element to String toString(Element xml)

Description

to String

License

Open Source License

Declaration

private static String toString(Element xml) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//from ww  w  .ja  v a 2 s .c om
 *
 *  Copyright (c) 2014 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others.  All rights reserved.
 *
 *  This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 *  terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
 *  and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 */

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import java.io.StringWriter;

import java.util.Iterator;

public class Main {
    private static String toString(Element xml) {
        try {
            Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");

            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new StringWriter());
            DOMSource source = new DOMSource(xml);
            transformer.transform(source, result);

            return result.getWriter().toString();
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException | TransformerFactoryConfigurationError | TransformerException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Unable to serialize xml element " + xml, e);
        }
    }

    private static String toString(Iterable<Element> xmlIterable) {
        try {
            Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");

            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new StringWriter());
            Iterator iterator = xmlIterable.iterator();
            DOMSource source;
            if (iterator.hasNext()) {
                source = new DOMSource((org.w3c.dom.Node) iterator.next());
                transformer.transform(source, result);
                transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
            }

            while (iterator.hasNext()) {
                source = new DOMSource((org.w3c.dom.Node) iterator.next());
                transformer.transform(source, result);
            }
            System.out.println(result.getWriter().toString());
            return result.getWriter().toString();
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException | TransformerFactoryConfigurationError | TransformerException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Unable to serialize xml element(s) " + xmlIterable.toString(), e);
        }
    }
}

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