Java XML Node to String convertToString(Node node)

Description

convert To String

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String convertToString(Node node) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/* w  ww . java  2s . c  o  m*/
 * movie-renamer-core
 * Copyright (C) 2012 Nicolas Magr?
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU 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 General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

import java.io.StringWriter;

import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

import org.w3c.dom.ls.DOMImplementationLS;
import org.w3c.dom.ls.LSSerializer;

public class Main {
    public static String convertToString(Node node) {
        boolean withXMLDeclaration = true;
        String result;
        if (withXMLDeclaration) {
            Document document = node.getOwnerDocument();
            DOMImplementationLS domImplLS = (DOMImplementationLS) document.getImplementation();
            LSSerializer serializer = domImplLS.createLSSerializer();
            result = serializer.writeToString(node);
        } else {
            try {
                TransformerFactory transFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
                Transformer transformer = transFactory.newTransformer();
                StringWriter buffer = new StringWriter();
                transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
                transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(buffer));
                result = buffer.toString();
            } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
                result = "";
            } catch (TransformerException e) {
                result = "";
            }
        }
        return result;
    }
}

Related

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