Java XML Node to String toString(final Node node)

Description

Returns the content of the given node as string

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String toString(final Node node) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//from w  w w .  j  av  a 2 s . c  om
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A project of the Social Trade Organisation (www.socialtrade.org).
    
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 */

import java.io.StringWriter;

import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
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.Node;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Returns the content of the given node as string
     */
    public static String toString(final Node node) {
        final StringWriter out = new StringWriter();
        write(node, new StreamResult(out));
        return out.toString();
    }

    private static void write(final Node node, final Result result) {
        try {
            // Prepare the DOM document for writing
            final Source source = new DOMSource(node);

            // Write the DOM document to the file
            final Transformer xformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            xformer.transform(source, result);
        } catch (final TransformerConfigurationException e) {
        } catch (final TransformerException e) {
        }

    }
}

Related

1. nodeToXmlString(Node node)
2. stringifyNode(Node node)
3. toHtml(StringBuffer html, Node node)
4. toString(final Node node)
5. toString(final Node node)
6. toString(final Node xml)
7. toString(final short nodeType)
8. toString(Node element)
9. toString(Node n)