Java XML Node to String asString(Element elt)

Description

as String

License

Open Source License

Declaration

private static String asString(Element elt) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//from  www. j a v  a2s .co  m
 * Copyright (c) 2011-2014 INRIA.
 * 
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 * the terms of the GNU Affero 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 Affero General Public License
 * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
 **/

import java.io.StringWriter;

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

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public class Main {
    private static String asString(Element elt) {
        TransformerFactory transfac = TransformerFactory.newInstance();

        try {
            Transformer trans = transfac.newTransformer();
            trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
            trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
            trans.setOutputProperty(
                    "{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "4");

            StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);
            DOMSource source = new DOMSource(elt);

            try {
                trans.transform(source, result);
                return sw.toString();
            } catch (TransformerException e) {
                throw new IllegalStateException(e);
            }

        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
        }
    }
}

Related

1. asString(Node node)
2. asString(Node node)
3. asString(Node node)
4. asString(XMLStreamReader xmlr)