Java XML Node to String nodeToXmlString(Node node)

Description

Returns an XML representation of the provided node.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
node	the node to be represented in XML.

Return

a string containing an XML representation of the provided DOM node.

Declaration

public static String nodeToXmlString(Node node) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//from  ww  w.  j a  va2  s . c o m
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 * Copyright 2010 the University of New Mexico.
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import java.io.StringWriter;

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 org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Returns an XML representation of the provided node.
     *
     * @param node the node to be represented in XML.
     *
     * @return a string containing an XML representation of the
     * provided DOM node.
     */
    public static String nodeToXmlString(Node node) {

        try {

            Transformer t = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            t.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");

            DOMSource source = new DOMSource(node);
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new StringWriter());

            t.transform(source, result);

            return result.getWriter().toString();

        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
        } catch (TransformerFactoryConfigurationError e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
        }

    }
}

Related

1. nodeToString(Node node, StringBuffer sb)
2. nodeToString(Object node)
3. nodeToString(org.w3c.dom.Node domNode)
4. nodeToText(Node node)
5. nodeToWriter(Node node, Writer writer)
6. stringifyNode(Node node)
7. toHtml(StringBuffer html, Node node)
8. toString(final Node node)
9. toString(final Node node)