Java XML Node to String convertToString(Node node)

Description

convert To String

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String convertToString(Node node) throws ParserConfigurationException 

Method Source Code

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

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import java.io.StringWriter;

public class Main {
    public static String convertToString(Node node) throws ParserConfigurationException {
        return convertDocumentToString(convertToDocument(node));
    }//from   w  w w  .j  a  v  a2s . c  o  m

    /**
     * src:http://www.journaldev.com/1237/java-convert-string-to-xml-document-and-xml-document-to-string
     * @param doc
     * @return
     */
    public static String convertDocumentToString(Document doc) {
        TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer;
        try {
            transformer = tf.newTransformer();
            // below code to remove XML declaration
            // transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(writer));
            String output = writer.getBuffer().toString();
            return output;
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return null;
    }

    public static Document convertToDocument(Node node) throws ParserConfigurationException {

        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setNamespaceAware(false);
        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document newDocument = builder.newDocument();
        newDocument.setXmlStandalone(true);
        Node importedNode = newDocument.importNode(node, true);
        newDocument.appendChild(importedNode);
        return newDocument;
    }
}

Related

1. asString(Node node)
2. asString(XMLStreamReader xmlr)
3. asXML(Node node)
4. asXmlString(Node node)
5. convertToString(Node node)
6. createXmlString(Node node)
7. dump(Node node)
8. dumpNode(Node node)
9. elementToString(Node element)