Here you can find the source of writeNode(Node n, Writer w)
public static void writeNode(Node n, Writer w) throws IOException
//package com.java2s; /*//from ww w . java 2s .c o m Copyright 2000-2001,2003 The Apache Software Foundation Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ import java.io.IOException; import java.io.Writer; import org.w3c.dom.Attr; import org.w3c.dom.DocumentType; import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { /** * Writes a node using the given writer. */ public static void writeNode(Node n, Writer w) throws IOException { switch (n.getNodeType()) { case Node.ELEMENT_NODE: w.write("<"); w.write(n.getNodeName()); if (n.hasAttributes()) { NamedNodeMap attr = n.getAttributes(); int len = attr.getLength(); for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) { Attr a = (Attr) attr.item(i); w.write(" "); w.write(a.getNodeName()); w.write("=\""); w.write(contentToString(a.getNodeValue())); w.write("\""); } } Node c = n.getFirstChild(); if (c != null) { w.write(">"); for (; c != null; c = c.getNextSibling()) { writeNode(c, w); } w.write("</"); w.write(n.getNodeName()); w.write(">"); } else { w.write("/>"); } break; case Node.TEXT_NODE: w.write(contentToString(n.getNodeValue())); break; case Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE: w.write("<![CDATA["); w.write(n.getNodeValue()); w.write("]]>"); break; case Node.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE: w.write("&"); w.write(n.getNodeName()); w.write(";"); break; case Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE: w.write("<?"); w.write(n.getNodeName()); // TD: Bug #19392 w.write(" "); w.write(n.getNodeValue()); w.write("?>"); break; case Node.COMMENT_NODE: w.write("<!--"); w.write(n.getNodeValue()); w.write("-->"); break; case Node.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE: { DocumentType dt = (DocumentType) n; w.write("<!DOCTYPE "); w.write(n.getOwnerDocument().getDocumentElement().getNodeName()); String pubID = dt.getPublicId(); if (pubID != null) { w.write(" PUBLIC \"" + dt.getNodeName() + "\" \"" + pubID + "\">"); } else { String sysID = dt.getSystemId(); if (sysID != null) w.write(" SYSTEM \"" + sysID + "\">"); } } break; default: throw new Error("Internal error (" + n.getNodeType() + ")"); } } /** * Returns the given content value transformed to replace invalid * characters with entities. */ public static String contentToString(String s) { StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(); for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) { char c = s.charAt(i); switch (c) { case '<': result.append("<"); break; case '>': result.append(">"); break; case '&': result.append("&"); break; case '"': result.append("""); break; case '\'': result.append("'"); break; default: result.append(c); } } return result.toString(); } }